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Hi all.
I have searched around and have not been able to find the answer that I am looking for, so hopefully someone with a bit more experience can lend a hand.
I am just getting back into firearm ownership and shooting sports since last enjoying the sport since I was a kid. I have in my family a few firearms that my decessed Grandfather wanted me to have. These range from 1800s Austrian shotguns, to pre-war .22 match rifles, to a couple of Colt handguns and a luger. These handguns are the subject of my question. They currently are in the possession of my father, who inherited my Grandfather's property. He has offered to give or sell the two pistols to me in the near future. However, he has major concerns about legality and registration. He refuses to believe that he could just give me the rifles even. He wants to see a "pamphlet" or something similar from the state or CSP stating transfer rules and laws. He thinks is it a complicated tast, where based on my understanding of the law, registering the long-guns with an FFL will just make MORE work than needed. Here are the facts:
Dad wants to give me a couple of inherited old pistols in minty condition.
I applied for my Concealed Carry last week. Have taken the NRA course, background, prints, yadda, yadda. Am 27 years old, no criminal or psyche background what so ever. I expect to be lic'd within by August 1st.
Dad does not have a Concealed Carry Lic. Guns never leave house obviously. They are just an old WWII Vet's/LEO booty.
We are both CT resident.
As far as we know there was never any "paperwork" filed on these guns. The newest is maybe from the mid-60s and appears to never have been fired. If there had been, we would not know where to look.
So, can anyone point me in the direction of a state statute to quote, or maybe there is a "pamphlet" to obtain. Neither of us like the idea of calling the PD/CSP as they would probably invite us to "bring it down for a look":uhoh:
Furthermore, does anyone know what the proper thing to do would be? I suspect at MINIMUM, that I have to wait until I recieve my CCW permit, which makes absolute sense, but what do I do from there? Neither of us want to break the law here, but I dont want to open a can of worms by trying to register some old pistols with very menacing nationalist engraving and no history other than a few war stories followed by 60 years in a sock-drawer.
I want these guns, badly. Dad wants to do everything "right." I dont blame him for acting like a boyscout, since thats where we both learned to shoot:lol: Where do I start?
One of them is a VERY nice .22LR 10 shot Colt semiauto match pistol. I am very much looking forward to putting some serious range-time on this gun and getting back into the sport the right way. By mastering the lower calibers completely before I start spinning the big wheelgun I would also be getting. I tried shooting a .40S&W Glock 27 this weekend, and it was very apparent that like anything, you have to master the basics. But man that BOOOM! was fun!:celebrate:
Hi all.
I have searched around and have not been able to find the answer that I am looking for, so hopefully someone with a bit more experience can lend a hand.
I am just getting back into firearm ownership and shooting sports since last enjoying the sport since I was a kid. I have in my family a few firearms that my decessed Grandfather wanted me to have. These range from 1800s Austrian shotguns, to pre-war .22 match rifles, to a couple of Colt handguns and a luger. These handguns are the subject of my question. They currently are in the possession of my father, who inherited my Grandfather's property. He has offered to give or sell the two pistols to me in the near future. However, he has major concerns about legality and registration. He refuses to believe that he could just give me the rifles even. He wants to see a "pamphlet" or something similar from the state or CSP stating transfer rules and laws. He thinks is it a complicated tast, where based on my understanding of the law, registering the long-guns with an FFL will just make MORE work than needed. Here are the facts:
Dad wants to give me a couple of inherited old pistols in minty condition.
I applied for my Concealed Carry last week. Have taken the NRA course, background, prints, yadda, yadda. Am 27 years old, no criminal or psyche background what so ever. I expect to be lic'd within by August 1st.
Dad does not have a Concealed Carry Lic. Guns never leave house obviously. They are just an old WWII Vet's/LEO booty.
We are both CT resident.
As far as we know there was never any "paperwork" filed on these guns. The newest is maybe from the mid-60s and appears to never have been fired. If there had been, we would not know where to look.
So, can anyone point me in the direction of a state statute to quote, or maybe there is a "pamphlet" to obtain. Neither of us like the idea of calling the PD/CSP as they would probably invite us to "bring it down for a look":uhoh:
Furthermore, does anyone know what the proper thing to do would be? I suspect at MINIMUM, that I have to wait until I recieve my CCW permit, which makes absolute sense, but what do I do from there? Neither of us want to break the law here, but I dont want to open a can of worms by trying to register some old pistols with very menacing nationalist engraving and no history other than a few war stories followed by 60 years in a sock-drawer.
I want these guns, badly. Dad wants to do everything "right." I dont blame him for acting like a boyscout, since thats where we both learned to shoot:lol: Where do I start?
One of them is a VERY nice .22LR 10 shot Colt semiauto match pistol. I am very much looking forward to putting some serious range-time on this gun and getting back into the sport the right way. By mastering the lower calibers completely before I start spinning the big wheelgun I would also be getting. I tried shooting a .40S&W Glock 27 this weekend, and it was very apparent that like anything, you have to master the basics. But man that BOOOM! was fun!:celebrate: