I have been reading up on this a little. IMO, it seems that a trust is the way to go. I have read that some lawyers and gunshops are charging up to $1000 to set up the trust. Googleing this, I have found this place will send a kit for $79
$79 link for NFA trust My questions are, Is setting up a trust so darn difficult? Seems there would just be a blank form you could fill in the names and serial numbers, etc.
I have no legal training so this is new to me.
As I frequently tell my clients, how will you know what you don't know? There is a reason for using an expert, especially where a misstep may constitute a felony.
It is not all that expensive to use one of the lawyers who know what they are doing. (Yes, a gun trust is better than just getting a permit in your own name for several reasons.) Often they can charge competitive rates because of the scale of their activity. I recommend these two, based on my own research on this:
David Goldman at
http://www.guntrustlawyer.com/ or
David Hiersekorn at
http://privatecounsel.com/The former is a gun trust specialist in Florida with local contacts all over the US. He does this all the time, offers a lot of free information and gives price quotes online and phone consultations.
David Hiersekorn is a brilliant trust and estate planning lawyer in California with some interesting wrinkles on precautionary language that he includes in the documents.
If I were going to set up a gun trust for myself, even though I am a lawyer, I would use one of these two. It just safer and I think well worth relying on someone to do it for me.
