House Bill No. 5436 SUB A (Governor/Secretary of State/General Treasurer/Attorney General/Lieutenant Governor) BY Knight, Caldwell, Boylan, Speakman, McEntee, Ajello, Kazarian, Craven, Dawson, Felix ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- RHODE ISLAND ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN ACT OF 2025 (Establishes the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025.) {LC1181/A/2} » http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText25/HouseText25/H5436A.pdf
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Regarding the inheritance laws, if someone passes who legally possesses
the gun and they leave it to a child who's not legally entitled to own a gun,
perhaps underage, would the inheritance, it doesn't address that, would it come
under standard inheritance laws or is there something different regarding the
fact that that child has 180 days to register? Like how does it affect the
the inheritance of a gun to a person who can't, I'm having trouble articulating
my question. I couldn't find the answer in the document and it seems like
there's a problem here where that wouldn't be addressed under our standard
inheritance laws of a legal gun because this is an illegal gun.
Well, I think we went out of our way in the language to try to cover every scenario where someone might hold a firearm that's passed down from someone who passed away.
They would go under a trust or something standard. This doesn't change the law that's already in existence over the inheritance from a minor.
It's designed explicitly to comply as best we can with our property laws that are in place now without introducing substantial change going the other way.
Understood. Thank you for the clarification.
