Are your Second Amendment rights
and owning firearms important to you?
and owning firearms important to you?
You use firearms safely and store them safely. You know the basic rules of firearm safety. You know how to protect yourself and your family exercising your Constitutional rights.
But, what about protecting your firearms collection?
How can you safely pass your collection on to the next generation?
Colorado 2A Trust Law can help you own, share, and transfer your firearms safely and legally.
What you need is a Colorado 2A Trust designed specifically for you, your family and your firearms. Low cost, free online trusts, and trusts done by software programs could put you and your family at risk. Our Colorado 2A Trust will help you and your family enjoy your firearms collection within the law and reduce exposure to civil and potential criminal penalties for doing so improperly.
With ever changing landscape of government regulation, the future ability of persons to own and/or possess firearms, including NFA firearms is under stricter scrutiny. Under the current ATF regulations, an individual, corporation or other legal entity may purchase and possess NFA firearms.
Your Colorado 2A Firearm Trust is a legal entity established for the purpose of ensuring your firearms are privately owned, managed and protected – both during your life and after you pass away.
Colorado 2A Trust Law serves a wide variety of clients with various firearms. This includes before purchasing your first firearm, acquiring a collector’s firearm, and managing extensive collections of all types of firearms.
Colorado 2A Trust Law is located in Broomfield, Colorado. We serve clients all along Colorado’s Front Range. We also serve a wide range of mountain communities including Summit, Clear Creek, Park, Lake, Pitkin, Mesa, Garfield, Grand and Eagle Counties in Colorado.
Your Colorado 2A Trust will be specifically tailored to meet your specific needs and circumstances. Your Colorado 2A Trust is designed from the “ground up” by an experienced attorney to address issues relating to the use, possession and transfer of firearms. Your Colorado 2A Trust will avoid the “Accidental Felony” of a person coming into constructive possession of your restricted firearms.
We believe a Colorado 2A Firearm Trust is the preferred method for purchasing or registering NFA firearms because:
A Colorado 2A Trust can also give you the ability to react quickly to Red Flag Orders. For instance, if one of the trustees or the settlor become the subject of a Red Flag Order, if the firearms are owned and possessed by your Colorado 2A Trust another trustee may take possession of the firearms without having to surrender the firearms to the local authority.
Wherever you are in Colorado, if you own and use a firearm or have a collection of firearms, you may want to create a Colorado 2A Trust as part of your overall estate plan. Though a trust is not required to own or possess a firearm, our Colorado 2A Trust can make it easier for you to transfer your weapons to others, to allow others to use your firearms without exposing them to criminal liability especially if you own certain weapons restricted under federal law.
A Colorado 2A Trust is a type of revocable trust that can be used to protect the firearms of an estate owner, known as a “settlor”. Colorado 2A Trust is a legal entity and your Colorado 2A Trust will become the legal owner of the firearm, or collection of firearms, once the trust is officially signed and funded. The ownership of the firearm or collection is transferred from the you as individual to the Colorado 2A Trust itself. The settlor will designate a trustee who is responsible for administering the trust and its assets, including firearms, for the benefit of designated beneficiaries. Typically, the settlor (you) is one of the trustees.
Your Colorado 2A Trust can be modified or canceled at any point before your death or incapacity. Once you have passed away, your Colorado 2A Trust becomes irrevocable. At this point, one of the other trustees will take control of the Colorado 2A Trust on behalf of the beneficiaries. Your Colorado 2A Trust may also be used as a way to own restricted firearms under the National Firearms Act (NFA) as the NFA, the Gun Control Act (GCA) and Colorado law. These laws have special provisions allowing your Colorado 2A Trust to own these NFA firearms and allow all of the trustees to possess these weapons.
These days, many people own sporting weapons and suppressors also known as silencers. NFA-regulated firearms include automatic weapons, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, suppressors and destructive devices.
A Colorado 2A Trust makes it easier to manage and use NFA firearms. Because it is illegal for anyone other than the registered owner of an NFA firearm to possess, or even have the ability to possess NFA firearms (i.e., constructive possession = an Accidental Felony), your Colorado 2A Trust allows for designated trustees who will have the ability to possess and use these items through the Colorado 2A Trust. If you rely on NFA firearms for home defense and a family member has access to the NFA firearm for that purpose, a Colorado 2A Trust may be right for you.
Your Colorado 2A Trust is a special purpose trust dealing with regulated firearms and can also hold ownership of non-NFA firearms. Most standard estate planning trusts are not designed to hold title to NFA firearms let alone deal with the intricacies of transfers of such weapons. Your Colorado 2A Trust will also allow for non-NFA firearms to be owned by the trust. This can be very useful if the plan is to convert a pistol, long shotgun and/or long long rifle into to a short-barreled rifle (SBR) which is then an NFA firearm.
The information contained on this website is provided for educational and informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and should not be construed as providing legal advice on any subject matter. Colorado and federal laws frequently change. As a result, the content on this website is not necessarily up to date, nor comprehensive. Contact us or another attorney with any legal questions specific to your matter.