Originally Posted By: TrapShooter12I was asked this today and I have no clue what the answer would be.
If someone setup a house hold trust can they use that as their trust to buy a Suppressor.
that going to depend on the language of the trust.
from what my lawyer told me, and what i've been able to read on the subject elsewhere, NFA trusts contain very specific language regarding the ownership and posession rules for NFA items that a typical household (non NFA specific) trust wouldnt usually contain.
thats not saying you couldn't have a lawyer draft a trust to handle both but you'd have to decide if you want the BATFE browsing the list of your household items listed as part of the trust for review when you submit your trust as part of your form 1 or form 4 to make/buy a NFA item.
i'd have to guess that - based on my experience with trusts and the BATFE - if you had a separate schedule for your trust for nfa stuff and another for non NFA stuff and did not submit the non NFA schedule with your paperwork it'd probably get held up on you.
when i did my first suppressor (form 4) my application was initially denied because the footers (page numbers) were marked wrong on my schedule A & B.
my lawyer originally crafted my trust as a single document. so the footers were 1 of 15, 2 of 15..... 15 of 15... that kinda thing.
since PDF's arent easily editable, he provided the Schedule A (trust membership list) and Schedule B (trust property list) as a separate Word document.
when i printed up the Schedule A&B as an additional document and threw away the blank copies that were part of the trust PDF, their footers showed page 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 respectively. Because the footers did not match the trust that only got as far as 13 of 15.... they wouldnt accept it. I had to modify the footers manually to show 14 of 15 and 15 of 15 on the Schedules and resubmit them to get my trust approved. the only change to the documents was the footers.
[edit] i am not a lawyer, you should probably consult one to verify how this would apply to your situation. my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it 
