Thread: deceased estate guns

I have just been through this twice in the last month.

1: if the person is alive, and the licence expires, then they don’t hold a licence and therefore aren’t required (literally cannot) to register firearms, you just register them “fresh” and explain they have come from someone who isn’t renewing, and in my case they didn’t care or have interest in following up the origin, as long as they were being registered.


2: if deceased, just register them in your name, and once again explain they have come from a deceased estate. Then much the same again, they aren’t concerned on origin, as long as it is being registered and held legally.

I genuinely would have thought following up (___) either is in fact dead and has nothing left hiding away, or (___) who isn’t renewing has in-fact surrendered all arms items to an LFO or similar would have been top priority to stop stuff falling through the cracks, but apparently not in the slightest.