Help transfer firearms

[mpan72]

You said no documentation needed between some family members for handguns? If so can she give them to her father-in-law? If so should they go to a lawyer to get an official letter saying he wont release them back to her?

No, she can not just give them to her father in law.

[knight0334]

You said no documentation needed between some family members for handguns? If so can she give them to her father-in-law? If so should they go to a lawyer to get an official letter saying he wont release them back to her?

Direct transfers between spouses, parent/child, and grandparent/grandchild are legal without paperwork.

[son of the revolution]

Direct transfers between spouses, parent/child, and grandparent/grandchild are legal without paperwork.

Yes, and a father in law is NONE of those enumerated catagories

[BimmerJon]

Yes, and a father in law is NONE of those enumerated catagories

Could be adopted?

[son of the revolution]

Could be adopted?

Im not sure what your driving at ??

The title " father in law" is used exclusively to describe the father of one's spouse. I dont see how "adoption" plays into that. A father in law (regardless of how they got to be one) doesnt fall into the list of exclusionary categories for FTF transfers of firearms. At least not in any way I can find, or how I understand the law.

[BimmerJon]

Long day, I read stepdad for some reason

But still a question or two

What is the definition of parent?
What if a step-parent adopts the child?

[son of the revolution]

Long day, I read stepdad for some reason

But still a question or two

What is the definition of parent?
What if a step-parent adopts the child?

I dont know the answer, but my limited educated guess would be that since adoption is a legal procedure conferring all kinds of rights and such, and that the adopter is legally considered to be the child's parent in a more formal way then just being married to their Mom or Dad that an adoptee to adopter transfer would fall under the exclusion. Then again, I tend to forget that laws arent written to be logical or make sense in the real world so.................

[tl_3237]

Long day, I read stepdad for some reason

But still a question or two

What is the definition of parent?
What if a step-parent adopts the child?

I dont know the answer, but my limited educated guess would be that since adoption is a legal procedure conferring all kinds of rights and such, and that the adopter is legally considered to be the child's parent in a more formal way then just being married to their Mom or Dad that an adoptee to adopter transfer would fall under the exclusion. Then again, I tend to forget that laws arent written to be logical or make sense in the real world so.................

For purposes of the UFA:

1 PA CSA 1991

"Child" or "children." Includes children by birth or adoption.

[BimmerJon]

Thanks!

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