Anyway….We just want to transfer ownership of the long rifles to my name or my wife’s, we are not NH residents…just wondering if you have to be a NH resident.
We are both eligible to own, buy and carry firearms though that is not a factor.
MY QUESTION: In New Hampshire, can an out of state citizen take possesion or ownership of firearms, through an FFL, from a family member?
The firearms would most likely remain in the safe in NH, but screwing around with firearms after someone passes seems to get really complicated really fast. So to transfer ownership is like $35 per firearm?
You're being a little imprecise with your language.
Outside of Mass. (where laws are written super stupidly) "firearm" means any kind of thing that goes 'bang' and expels a projectile, or the receiver of that thing. People generally say, "the serialized part is the firearm", but that's not strictly true because there was no legal requirement to serialize guns before 1968, and there's a lot of un-serialized guns out there that are 100% legal, and count as firearms.
But if you mean "long gun", or "rifle or shotgun", and not "firearm". I'm leaving NFA items like SBRs and machineguns aside because they're weird and don't apply here.
I make this distinction because it's illegal for an FFL to transfer a handgun to someone to is not a resident of the same state as the FFL.
However, it's totally legal for an FFL to transfer a rifle or shotgun to a resident of another state.
So as long as you only mean "rifles" (like the thread title says) and not "firearms" (like you say in many posts) it's totally OK for a NH FFL to transfer them to you.
One more caveat: FFLs are prohibited from transferring anything that would be illegal for the recipient to possess in his/her home state; the FFL might not want to make that judgement and just say, "nope, not gonna play with you." e.g.: if someone from NY or MA or NJ wanted to buy or have transferred to him an AR15, a NH FFL would likely say "nope, not gonna, not worth the risk." A paranoid one wouldn't transfer
anything to a NY, NJ, or MA resident in an abundance of caution. (even though it could be totally legal)
If you live in a sane state that has no restrictions on rifles, this shouldn't be a problem.