I skimmed over that. It appears HEIRS to the estate can get the NFA items transferred to them via the executor (better have a will) as long as they do it before closing probate. That would certainly put a wrinkle in distributing assets to your heirs timely.

The grey area is possession. I'm reading the ATF gives a legal estate executor a "reasonable amount of time" to facilitate the transfer to heirs.

It's pretty clear the NON REGISTERED NFA are contraband and totally illegal and to be surrendered to the ATF. That's kind of a "Duh" thing to me.

Besides the fact Weaver wouldn't sign NFA when I did mine, it was a huge benefit to transfer all the 15+ cap magazines in the trust as well prior to Jul 2013, and by declaring a co-trustee and/or beneficiaries, the transfer of the trust (trust items) becomes so much simpler.