California Regulated-Firearm Trust Counsel Preparation Packet

CALIFORNIA REGULATED-FIREARM TRUST — COUNSEL PREPARATION PACKET

STOP — non-operative worksheet. Do not sign this packet as a trust and do not use it to move, retitle, add, remove, share, access, transport, manufacture, modify, transfer, surrender, or destroy property. Preserve the current lawful status quo while qualified counsel completes the authority and asset review.

1. Client, Counsel, and Objective

Counsel-approved scope of representation: [________________]

Activities expressly outside the engagement: [________________]

2. Current-Authority Gate

Complete separately for each asset, person, and proposed event.

☐ Current statutes, regulations, official agency forms and instructions, controlling cases, state guidance, and local rules were checked.

☐ Pending and recently effective federal and California changes were checked.

☐ Counsel confirmed that a trust is lawful and useful for the stated objective.

☐ No action will occur until every affected asset, person, and event has written clearance.

3. Existing-Status Preservation Record

Current lawful custodian / possessor: [________________]

Current storage location: [CONFIDENTIAL REFERENCE — DO NOT PLACE PUBLICLY]

Current registered owner / entity shown by official records: [________________]

Existing trust, estate, permit, dealer, or agency record: [________________]

Immediate preservation instructions issued by counsel: [________________]

Until written clearance:

☐ No new person receives keys, codes, combinations, documents, constructive access, or physical access.

☐ No item is moved, modified, assembled, disassembled, tested, transported, lent, delivered, or displayed.

☐ No Schedule, assignment, bill of sale, trust amendment, or beneficiary designation is treated as a transfer.

☐ No form is submitted and no representation is made to an agency, dealer, court, insurer, or third party.

☐ No item is surrendered, abandoned, or destroyed without a counsel-approved procedure and responsible authority.

4. Secure Asset Classification Register

Do not place complete serial numbers, registration documents, access codes, or precise storage locations in a broadly shared draft.

Item-Specific Questions

5. Person and Role Register

A trust title alone does not supply possession, access, eligibility, transfer, or agency authority. Record each role separately after counsel review.

Changed circumstances requiring immediate re-review: [________________]

Removal, resignation, incapacity, death, relocation, protective order, criminal matter, or eligibility-response procedure: [________________]

6. Proposed Trust Design Register

Counsel should draft the actual trust only after the authority and asset gates are complete.

The final trust should not state that an item is lawful, registered, transferable, or trust-owned unless the asset register and transfer record establish that fact.

7. Proposed Event Clearance

Complete a separate row before every contemplated event.

Approval effective date and expiration / conditions: [________________]

Evidence retained in secure file: [________________]

8. Incapacity and Death Response Plan

This section records coordination steps; it does not authorize possession or transfer.

Executor, successor trustee, dealer, insurer, and counsel contact sheet location: [________________]

Alternative disposition if a proposed recipient or route is unavailable: [________________]

Do not insert a universal deadline, family-transfer exemption, tax-free estate form, or surrender instruction. Counsel must select the current route for the specific asset and facts.

9. Storage, Access, and Records Plan

10. Drafting, Execution, and Funding Control

The trust’s execution date, an attached asset schedule, or a private assignment does not by itself establish regulatory approval or authorize an event.

11. Ongoing Review Calendar

Final Counsel Checklist

☐ Every asset has a current federal and California classification from official sources.

☐ Current ownership, registration, permits, exemptions, possession, storage, and configuration are documented.

☐ Every proposed trustee, beneficiary, possessor, transporter, recipient, and responsible person has an event-specific review.

☐ The trust design fits the client’s objective and does not purport to legalize prohibited conduct.

☐ No asset is treated as funded by Schedule A, amendment, assignment, or execution alone.

☐ No categorical table of California-legal or prohibited NFA items remains.

☐ No automatic Form 1, Form 4, Form 5, transport authorization, family exemption, dealer route, FSC, fingerprint, photograph, or age instruction remains.

☐ Incapacity and death procedures preserve the status quo until current counsel clearance.

☐ Complete serial numbers, access information, and registration records are stored securely.

☐ The actual trust, agency forms, transfer records, and approvals—not this packet—will control.

☐ Unused options and drafting notes were deleted.