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More on Using Trusts As Planning Devices for Firearms

I‘ve written in the past about the use of “gun trusts” as a legal device to handle passage of guns to others, while avoiding some laws related to registration by gun owners.  

There’s another way to think about trust documents with guns, to provide a safeguarding process within families.  As one article suggests, 

Talk to your loved one about how to safely transfer ownership of their guns if they should become incapacitated. Consider writing a “gun trust,” a legal document outlining that process.

For more, read the Kaiser Health News’s piece, Worried About Grandpa’s Guns? Here’s What You Can Do.  Thanks, Matt Lawrence, for sharing this story.