Expiration of FID card

[Kar98 Sniper]

Sorry if this has already been discussed, but....

Hypothetically....

Let's say you have an FID card which expires January 1, 2008.

You own several rifles and shotguns.

You don't renew your FID.

Does someone come knocking?

 

[Len-2A Training]

Not usually, but they can and if they do they will confiscate all your guns, ammo, components, mags, etc. and you can kiss them goodbye.

They send them to a bonded warehouse who will charge you multiples of their value to get them back . . . so the bonded warehouses sell them off to "pay off your debt" after 6 months-1 year.

You don't want to go there.

Get them in the hands of someone who has a license or store them in a free state before that occurs.

 

[JimB]

renewal

I believe that remewal is $25, why not just renew. Or if you do not
want to sell you guns.

I don't really understand why you would not renew?????

Jim

 

[Len-2A Training]

I believe that remewal is $25, why not just renew. Or if you do not
want to sell you guns.

I don't really understand why you would not renew?????

Jim

Sorry, wrong!

FID and LTC are both $100 to renew.

I agree with your second thought, sell them (or move them out of state) if you don't want to keep your FID/LTC current. Why give the guns away for free to the bonded warehouse (via the PD)?

 

[Cross-X]

Perhaps to OP is imagining a situation where the FID-holder had something occur to him that would disqualify him from a renewal.

 

[drgrant]

I've heard stories of it happening, so it's certainly possible.

I get the impression it depends on the locality. If a given town
has 1000 people in it with expired FIDs from 1998 or whenever it
changed, they're probably not going to bother all of those people,
but they might be more interested in harrassing current license
holders who just expired because the probability that they still have
guns may be higher. Who knows... the whole thing is kind of a
black box.

I've heard of one story personally (this guy I knew, a knucklehead,
didn't renew his FID, and the PD came and confiscated his
guns). Most of the other stories I hear are people that
get "raided" for statutory disqualifiers. EG, guy with an LTC gets
a DUI, gets convicted, and somehow the local PD finds out about
it and decides to pay the person a visit and then takes his guns, if
he still has any around.

-Mike

 

[billmelater]

If he doesn't renew an FID or an LTC, could they take his guns if he moves them to a house he owns and rents to his adult son in NH?
Thanks

 

[Cross-X]

If he doesn't renew an FID or an LTC, could they take his guns if he moves them to a house he owns and rents to his adult son in NH?
Thanks

The cops in MA have no jurisdiction in any other state, so, no, they couldn't take his guns if they were already out of state.

 

[billmelater]

How about a MA court order forcing him to produce the guns?
Thanks

 

[Cross-X]

How about a MA court order forcing him to produce the guns?
Thanks

Uhh, no.

 

[Len-2A Training]

C-X, there was at least one case (might have been posted here on NES) where the dummy told the PD where his guns were (out of state) and they had the PD in the other state confiscate them for them.

Won't tell you this is "legal", but PDs have been known to "do favors" for each other and it would not surprise me.

Best answer is "mum's the word" . . . don't tell the PD where they are (only that they are NOT at your residence), "lawyer up". Thus, you don't lie to the police but you also don't tell them more info than they need to know.

 

[Chris]

Guns? What guns?

 

[drgrant]

Guns? What guns?

"These aren't the droids, er, guns, you're looking for."

-Mike