ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
it's pretty simple: your gun is held by a gun dealer, the same way a gun bought online is
How does the gun get from the dead man's residence to the gun dealer ( I assume you mean an FFA license holder?). Is the person who takes it to the dealer checked? How? Does someone with an FFA drive around town picking up and cataloging dead people's gun's all day while he loses sales online (to another FFA) or retail customers?
It won't work. Let's pursue the stuff that will. Maybe we can buy dead Gramp's pistol off of Nana with some federal cash before she dies and it goes somewhere bad.
Nothing about guns is simple.
if it's legislated that the executor is legally obligated to transport it to an FFA license holder, then yes, it's pretty simple. will it always be done? maybe not, but it's a legal process that creates a chain of custody and legal liability at minimum and establishes a process to either eliminate the gun stock in the nation, prevents nuts from acquiring guns and also could help guns from disappearing off the grid