How Gun Shops Are Helping Prevent Suicide – Groups have set up arrangements where people in crisis can get firearms out of their homes [More]
The story is paywalled but we get enough from that to get the drift.
Questions I’d like to see answered include should anyone do this without counsel, whether doing this could be used against them later, what liability the gun store would face for returning firearms, who would have to authorize that, what’s the criteria for their decision either way, and if an equivalent of a Miranda warning ought to be required…
And none of that addresses the core truth.
[Via Brent M]
Does giving possession of a firearm to an FFL, even if only temporarily, constitute a “transfer” under GCA68 with the associated requirement of a background check when one tries to get it back? Does the FFL have to enter the firearm in their “bound book” permanent records? Does a 4473 need to be filled out? Can BATFE prohibit the FFL from returning possession to the owner?
I seem to recall hearing that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.