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Transfer of a firearm within family
« on: December 29, 2024, 05:22:06 PM »
Question on Wa laws (I have forgot since I moved...)

Can firearms be given to relatives w/o a background check?  E.G. can a brother give a gun to a sister (not living under the same roof but both reside in WA) 

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2024, 05:31:28 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help. 

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2024, 05:36:44 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2024, 05:37:52 PM »
Was just trying to post that
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2024, 06:07:54 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help.
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2024, 06:21:14 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help.

I hear that
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2024, 06:21:56 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

Thanks!  That is what I was thinking but WA does not always have logic built into gun laws
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2024, 06:23:41 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help.

This is the law that would apply to me.
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2024, 06:33:38 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help.

This is the law that would apply to me.
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2024, 06:55:12 PM »
I'm not sure up here.  In CA, handguns that were registered to me that I bought for my wife....eventually she wanted them in her name.  She had to basically go through a COE (certificate of eligibility) such as one working in a gun store.  Basically a background check, but it was online and the handguns never left our possession.  I think it was $19.  And immediate family meant just that.  Father,son, wife, daughter, grandparents.  No "related by marriage" (SIL, BIL, etc.).

If they hadn't been registered (long gun, pre-'76(?)), I wouldn't have bothered with the paperwork.

 

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2024, 07:10:19 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

Helpful.....but what is a "parents-in-law"? Don't think that I've heard that before.

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2024, 07:15:32 PM »
Well, If my Dad gave me a gun I could give a rats f%%# what Inslee had to say about it.  Does that help.

Not really but I think you should keep it to yourself and not tell Inslee. I don't think that anyone gives a damn what families do within the family structure.......unless you give a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing a firearm.

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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2024, 07:19:22 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

Helpful.....but what is a "parents-in-law"? Don't think that I've heard that before.
Eligible members are listed in the RCW.

(4) This section does not apply to:
(a) A transfer between immediate family members, which for this subsection shall be limited to spouses, domestic partners, parents, parents-in-law, children, siblings, siblings-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, first cousins, aunts, and uncles, that is a bona fide gift or loan;
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2024, 07:26:41 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

Helpful.....but what is a "parents-in-law"? Don't think that I've heard that before.
Seems pretty straight forward to me. Parents = mother and father. Parents in law = mother in law and father in law.
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Re: Transfer of a firearm within family
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2024, 07:47:18 PM »
https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.41.113

Immediate family transfers are exempt from the law.

Helpful.....but what is a "parents-in-law"? Don't think that I've heard that before.
Seems pretty straight forward to me. Parents = mother and father. Parents in law = mother in law and father in law.

Thank you.....think I have it. Father/mother (or either adoptive parent) can give his son/daughter a firearm. Similarly, a father or mother-in-law can give their son or daughter-in-law a firearm. Just never heard the term parents-in-law.

 


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