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How To Complete a Form 4 Transfer to a Trust
This section
explains the steps you will have to take complete the form 4
transfer to your Texas gun Trust:
Step 1: Create your trust, have it notarized
Execute your Texas Gun Trust. If you have any questions, call or email me.
I am here to assist you.
The signatures on your Texas Gun Trust must be notarized. After having your
trust notarized, make several copies of the Notarized trust. Store the original
Trust document in a safe place. I recommend a three ring binder in your
gun safe or safe deposit box. NEVER send the original Trust to the ATF. The
BATFE WILL NOT return the Trust documents you send them. Therefore, ONLY send
copies.
Include the Schedule A
Note, ATF now requires you send the Trust's Schedule A. You may redact any items
you do not wish them to see EXCEPT for NFA items already transferred to your
trust. Put your initials next to any redacted items.
The item you are transferring on this Form 4 should NOT be on the Schedule A
until the Form 4 is approved.
Shooting a suppressed SBR at night with PVS-14 and IR lasers at 100 yard steel
Step 2: Sign BOTH Form 4 forms
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TWO Form 4s with
original signatures of the dealer (Transferor) and your Original signatures!
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On the back of
each Form 4, you need to sign your name, followed by ", Trustee", and date,
in box 15. So the bottom of box 15 should look like:
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your
Signature, Trustee 1/1/2007
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On the bottom
of each Citizenship Form, you need to sign your name, followed by ",
Trustee", and date. So the bottom of the form should look like:
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Your
Signature, Trustee 1/1/2007
Step
3: Make out the check
Make a check payable to BATFE for $200.00. You may send a Money Order. I
suggest that you obtain a checking account in the name of the trust.
A
personal check will let you know when the BATFE has cashed the check. You must
put the serial number onto the face of the check. The serial number can be found
on the front of the Form 4, in box 4.g. Make out a separate check for each NFA
item being transferred.
Step 4: Assemble the forms
The final packet ready to mail is as follows. Do this for each NFA item being
transferred. Staple it all together, in this order:
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Check payable
to BATFE for $200.00.
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Form 4, signed
original [no photocopied signatures!]
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Form 4, signed
original [no photocopied signatures!]
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Certification
of Compliance with 18 USC 922g5B, signed original. [aka 'Citizenship Form]
[no photocopied signatures!]
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One COPY of your
entire, executed, Texas Gun Trust (including the schedule of Property),
Staple the form 4s, the certificate of compliance, the check and the trust
together and mail to the BATFE.
A table of
suppressed rifles at the AAC Silencer Shoot, September 2009
Step 5: Mailing the forms
The packet should be mailed to the following.
Step 6: Wait!
The examiners at the NFA Branch generally take anywhere from
Eight to Sixteen
weeks. Use this time to thread barrels, install mounting devices, stock up on
subsonic ammo, etc.
Forms come to the dealer
Make sure your dealer has your most current contact information.
This includes your current phone number and email address. I recommend
that you use a personal email instead of your work email Your dealer will
contact you when the Form 4s come back. The forms will be mailed to your dealer
when they're approved.
Rack of Suppressed
rifles at the Liberty Rod and Gun Club Silencer Shoot,
Spring 2010
If a form 4 is rejected due to an error. The forms will be returned to your
dealer.
Your dealer is the Transferee. The dealer WILL contact you when your forms
are returned.
Please call or email me if you have any questions. Thank you for your business!
Inspired by Mark Kuczka's article on Polite Society's website.
www.TexasGunTrust.com
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