Are you required to carry a copy of your NFA stamps with you while in possesion of NFA items in GA?
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NFA stamp
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Section 4-C: Transportation and Possession of a NFA Item
1: NFA stamps must be taped to the owners forehead during transportation of any NFA Item.
1: NFA stamps must be taped to the owners forehead during transportation of any NFA Item.
Easiest thing to do is take a picture of the stamp with your phone.
I have scans of them saved on my phone with additional copies saved to a drop box account (just in case).
Allegedly. You should know who you are required to show them to as well.
A stamp that's provided to me electronically, will be provided to the requesting federal agent electronically in return 
Not that it'll ever come up. They got their tax money... all they care about.
Not that it'll ever come up. They got their tax money... all they care about.
I say show a COPY of the stamped transfer or manufacture form.
I think it could be an e-copy, as long as it looks legit and not a Photoshopped deal. Cops are well aware of Photoshop and they can consider that possibility when examining the proof you offer them.
If you say you have no duty to show a cop anything, unless it's a federal ATF agent, consider this:
Per Georgia law, all of the NFA stuff is generally banned, and the burden is on you, the gun owner, to make an "affirmative defense" showing that you meet some exception to the general rule.
One such exception is that the weapon or device is properly registered with the federal government.
So I say yes, any LEO in Georgia can arrest you if you are seen with an NFA weapon and you "plead the fifth" or otherwise refuse to show your paperwork to the officer.
You could be earning yourself a trip to jail, a felony arrest, a $10,000 bail (of which you'd pay 13% to a bonding company as a fee), and the loss of your weapons (they'd be held "as evidence") for months, possibly years, until you and your lawyer decided to show your Form 4 with its stamp to the DA's office investigator.
See O.C.G.A. 16-11-125, and note that "This Part" of the law in question there is everything from 16-11-120 through 125. It's Georgia's Firearms and Weapons Act, which only applies to especially dangerous stuff like the NFA also regulates.
I think it could be an e-copy, as long as it looks legit and not a Photoshopped deal. Cops are well aware of Photoshop and they can consider that possibility when examining the proof you offer them.
If you say you have no duty to show a cop anything, unless it's a federal ATF agent, consider this:
Per Georgia law, all of the NFA stuff is generally banned, and the burden is on you, the gun owner, to make an "affirmative defense" showing that you meet some exception to the general rule.
One such exception is that the weapon or device is properly registered with the federal government.
So I say yes, any LEO in Georgia can arrest you if you are seen with an NFA weapon and you "plead the fifth" or otherwise refuse to show your paperwork to the officer.
You could be earning yourself a trip to jail, a felony arrest, a $10,000 bail (of which you'd pay 13% to a bonding company as a fee), and the loss of your weapons (they'd be held "as evidence") for months, possibly years, until you and your lawyer decided to show your Form 4 with its stamp to the DA's office investigator.
See O.C.G.A. 16-11-125, and note that "This Part" of the law in question there is everything from 16-11-120 through 125. It's Georgia's Firearms and Weapons Act, which only applies to especially dangerous stuff like the NFA also regulates.
I get my stamps laminated and take a picture to keep on my phone. I also keep the original email in my phone.
