Lisenceing a shotgun with no owner

GolfVI

Looking for any advice or information from anyone who would know.

A friend of mine was left a shotgun by another friend of his who recently passed away. He is not in possesion of the shotgun as it still left with the family, how exactly would he go about to license the shotgun since there is no longer a legal owner?

For section 3.3 source of the firearm, would details of the previous owner be what would be needed..

Avoiding asking our local firearms officer/garda as i recently had bother with a substitution due to them not knowing one end of a gun to the other ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚

The pigeon man

The gun should be handed into a RFD ASAP. Then you can put down the dealer as the source of the firearm and license it.

Cass

If the previous owner was licensed you can use their certificate number as the source for the firearm. The other option is, as said above, to use an RFD and their PULSE number as the source.

The main thing is if the licensee has passed, and no other person is licensed on it, then get it handed into an RFD immediately as whomever has the firearm may find themselves on the wrong end of a collar feeling for being in possession of an unlicensed firearm.

meathstevie

Technically speaking OP your friend is already the owner of the gun if his/her inheriting the gun is not contested.

Has to be put in storage with a dealer alright but for source of the gun on the forms I would write down the details of the former owner and "inherited from".