Hi All,
Okay. I've finished reading through this entire thread and have learned a lot. Thanks! I have a situation that is a little different from anything I've seen here, though, or found in other searches, so I thought I'd ask here.
My wife and I live in MA. My wife's father lived in CT. He died late August 2012. He had 3 hand guns and maybe 5 long guns, but for this question/post I will keep it focused on only 1 of those guns that we are truly interested in. It was a Walther P38 handgun that his father (my wife's grand father) brought back to the United States after WWII. To my knowledge, my father-in-law did not have a LTC in CT and the gun was not registered. My father-in-law did not have a will, was not married, my wife is his only child, and ther was never any probate case. I looked up the CT intestate succession law and it states that under that condition, she is the inheritor of everything. The gun is currently in the gun safe of a friend in CT who has an LTC.
Knowing nothing about firearms , I (not my wife) had finally gotten around to applying for my LTC in MA (I am still waiting to receive it) thinking that this would make it possible for me to just own the gun afterward. Of course, I've done a lot (for me!) of reading on this site since applying for my LTC and now know that I couldn't have been more wrong in this assumption. So, of course, the question is...how do we legally "own" the gun?
From what I now think I understand, there was a 180 day cutoff for my wife to drive the gun to MA from CT and apply for a MA LTC. Since the 180 days has well passed, that option is completely out, correct?
Another option, I hope, is that since the gun is a C&R (correct?) and since she is technically the owner via inheritance (correct?), are we able to contact an FFL in CT, contact an FFL in MA, and have our friend drive us and the gun to the FFL in CT to set up an interstate transfer to me once I get my MA LTC?
Thanks in advance!
p.s. - Please be gentle with me. This is my first time (post).