inherited handgun question

**Emptymag** · September 24th, 2011, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by abner13

Although , as others have pointed out , there is not SUPPOSED to be any registration of firearms in PA , the PA State Police have long maintained a so-called 'record of sale database' for all handguns transfered within the Commonwealth.

If you are ever stopped for whatever reason while the gun is in your posession , and the cops 'run the numbers' , it will not come up in the PA database , and could very well get confiscated till ownership is proven to their satisfaction. Even though they fully acknowledge the database in incomplete.

Not supposed to happen , but it does. And who do ya call when the police violate the law?

Nobody. You just bitch and moan about it on PAFOA.

**abner13** · September 24th, 2011, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Emptymag

Nobody. You just bitch and moan about it on PAFOA.

Not me. I just call my uncle , the Judge!

**Scrumpyjack** · September 28th, 2011, 08:59 PM

The legal process to relocate the handgun from NYS to PA is for your step mother (who is in legal possession of the handguns for only 15 days after the death of your father) to make sure that she has his pistol permit and any amendments. Make sure that all handguns listed on the permit/amendments are accounted for. Take the handgun to a FFL or sheriff's office for safe keeping. Then you and her will need to take a certified death certificate to the county clerk's office and file an amendment to your father's pistol permit. Check "Deceased", in the reason section. On the back of the form, you will then have to list your address and the handgun that you are taking possession of.

Once you have the handgun removed from his permit, NYS could care less about it. Take paperwork to FFL and him ship the gun to you (probably most will not) or your local FFL.

This is the long, round-about, legal way.

What county in NYS is this taking place? How far is the residence from PA border?

Regardless of how the firearm is removed from NYS, your step mother MUST surrender his pistol permit and show that all handguns have been moved to another permit or transferred out of state.