Mitch, Rahm and Richie all work together in Cook County, Illinois. Mitch lives in Indiana. Rahm lives in Chicago. Richie lives in an Illinois county (not Cook). They are all good friends besides being co-workers. Mitch is a solid "gun guy" who loves to shoot and shares his love for anything shooting. Rahm and Richie all got started in shooting because of Mitch.
Richie buys a ton of firearms after discovering he really likes to shoot and compete. He buys a really nice match grade rifle. Mitch has a ton of guns himself but really likes to shoot Richie's match grade rifle. They are really good friends so Richie lets Mitch keep the rifle at his place (in the safe) for most of the shooting season (Richie likes handguns more anyway). Mitch cares for the rifle and always returns it in the fall and everytime Richie decides he wants to go shooting with it.
Rahm is stuck in Chicago. He can't even get a pea shooter without jumping through a thousand hoops and paying through the nose for the privelege. Rahm just goes to the range with Mitch and uses his stuff. One day Rahm gets an offer he can't refuse and buys a base model AR. Immediately, he hands it over to Mitch to keep and to hold for him in his safe ... in Indiana. Mitch never shoots the rifle or even takes it out of the safe except to hand it to Rahm or to meet Rahm at the range. Whenever Rahm decides he wants to move out of Chicago, Mitch will simply give him his rifle back.
Question: Would any of these "transfers" be legal? At what point is a firearm transferred? What if Mitch never takes Richie's rifle home and instead hands it right back to him after a match or range trip?
Richie buys a ton of firearms after discovering he really likes to shoot and compete. He buys a really nice match grade rifle. Mitch has a ton of guns himself but really likes to shoot Richie's match grade rifle. They are really good friends so Richie lets Mitch keep the rifle at his place (in the safe) for most of the shooting season (Richie likes handguns more anyway). Mitch cares for the rifle and always returns it in the fall and everytime Richie decides he wants to go shooting with it.
Rahm is stuck in Chicago. He can't even get a pea shooter without jumping through a thousand hoops and paying through the nose for the privelege. Rahm just goes to the range with Mitch and uses his stuff. One day Rahm gets an offer he can't refuse and buys a base model AR. Immediately, he hands it over to Mitch to keep and to hold for him in his safe ... in Indiana. Mitch never shoots the rifle or even takes it out of the safe except to hand it to Rahm or to meet Rahm at the range. Whenever Rahm decides he wants to move out of Chicago, Mitch will simply give him his rifle back.
Question: Would any of these "transfers" be legal? At what point is a firearm transferred? What if Mitch never takes Richie's rifle home and instead hands it right back to him after a match or range trip?
