Stamp Organization

[JAG2955]

I did a little bit of tax stamp organization today, and thought I'd share a tip:

Went to Office Depot, bought a poly (non-paper) report cover, which is like a fancy $2 folder/flat 3 ring binder. Put a COPY of each Form 1 and Form 4, along with applicable 5320.20s, and a copy of my NFA trust into plastic page protectors. Taped the top shut with clear packing tape.

It'll go in my range bag, where it will be protected from weather by the plastic and from getting completely crushed by the report cover. Providing an easy-to-read copy should assist in dissuading any LEOs or RSOs who are unclear on the NFA regulations. I've only been questioned once, and I showed the RSO a copy of each Form 4 I had along. He obviously had no clue what he was looking at.

I also downloaded a free password-protected iPhone camera/photo app that allows you to sequester photos. I'll be snapping a copy of each tax stamp to keep on the phone as well. It'll be password protected so if my phone gets stolen, they don't try to find the goodies, if they can even understand what they're looking at.

[Netpackrat]

In the case of a range employee, I probably would have asked him if he had a badge to go with his attitude.

[JustinR]

I scanned in my Form 4's, made double sided copies with my color laser printer, and bought a laminating machine (that incidently my wife also needed, so that worked well) for $30 and made a laminated copy to go in the bottom of the range bag, a laminated copy to go in the safe of my partner in the trust, and the original in my gun safe. One can never be too careful.

[Denis]

I have a ton of firearms paperwork. I copy, then laminate, the originals and keep them in a lever-arch folder in the safe. I take copies out and about when necessary. I gave up carrying the papers around with me when their mass equaled that of the gun(s) in the rangbag. If the PTB want to examine my papers, they are welcome to follow me home and do it in the driveway...

[HTRN]

Denis, in the case of title II stuff, you have to have it with you.

[Denis]

Denis, in the case of title II stuff, you have to have it with you.

Officially, I have to have my papers with me too. Practically, I can identify myself, and present the paperwork later. The original papers are so "precious" that I prefer not to take the risk of anything happening to them. It's a bit like the fact that a plane may not fly without its certificate of airworthiness on board. When it crashes and burns, the CoA is gone up in smoke too!

[Termite]

It's a bit like the fact that a plane may not fly without its certificate of airworthiness on board. When it crashes and burns, the CoA is gone up in smoke too!

That is what I do; made a copy of the CoA and the registration, and keep the originals in a fire resistant file at home.

[JAG2955]

In the case of a range employee, I probably would have asked him if he had a badge to go with his attitude.

It was a douchy range, and he was a fudd of the highest caliber. You were supposed to call a cease-fire if you had a malfunction. Tcourtplayer and I were helping a guy with a Garand, and he bitched at us because we didn't call a cease fire. The RSO didn't even know what a Garand was.

This was also the range with a shotgun pattern-sized hole in the line roof and a blood stain on the concrete.

[Denis]

You were supposed to call a cease-fire if you had a malfunction.

WTF? So everyone else could waste their range time watching you clear a jam?

I could see calling a general halt maybe being justified in the case of a loaded and stuck live round, and your beating it out with a rod and hammer on the firing line. Realistically: pack it up carefully and take it elsewhere to be worked on.