Anyone have any experience with them? Did you do it yourself or hire a lawyer? How'd it go? Recommendations? Thanks!

I made my own with Quicken Willmaker but my dad wasn't comfortable with it so we had a lawyer draw one up. Put them side by side and you can't tell 10 words difference. It's a form document, you just fill in the blanks with your info, that's what the lawyer did, over the phone and it cost me $450.
YMMV

I went with a lawyer. Setting up a trust is simple. It's when you need the trust to hold up in court that it becomes important where it came from.
I used Cole Bryan in Fort Worth. Nice guy and answered all my questions before setting up the trust. Does any needed changes after as well.

Is it worth it to do the trust instead of going the individual route?

Some counties the only option is to do a trust, or LLC. Even if that isn't the case, setting up a trust allows access to items in the trust to any trustee, otherwise only the person on the stamp can possess the item. Also, if you add your spouse to the trust, she can purchase fun NFA stuff for you.

Okay that makes sense

In addition to any trustee being able to possess the NFA items, it also means that your kids, grandkids, and so on never have to pay for another $200 stamp. They just get added to the trust as trustees and new beneficiaries get named so the trust lives on forever.

Heirs don't have to pay a transfer tax regaurdless but being a trustee does make the transfer much quicker and easier.

My understanding is the transfer tax is only waived one time for the first heir. The second heir will have to pay the tax again. But I am not a lawyer nor do I claim to be so don't take my word for it.

I think im going to use Texas law Shield
299.00 total cost

I have a few questions if yall don't mind.

If you buy a short barreled full-auto rifle and put a suppressor on it, do you have to buy two separate stamps? I assume you do.

If you set up a trust, can you put more than one item in that trust? It seems that if you plan on buying more than one or two NFA items, the trust is cheaper than stamps.

Actually 3 stamps in your case
Short barrel less than 16 inches
Full auto
Suppressor

Once you have a trust, can you buy as many machine guns and suppressors you want and put them in the same trust? Or do you need a separate trust for each item?

They all go under the same trust.

Multiple NFA items can go into the same trust but each item must still have its own unique tax stamp.

Oh really?? Ever heard of the "rule against perpetuities"? You best do a lot more studying before you start trying to give legal advice on subjects you obviously know nothing about!!!

I am not a lawyer but, I do have some in the family and Toxarch is correct. Understand that the trust owns the items listed in it and the trustees control it. It is the same way as a corporation does it. Lets say that GE has a facility that makes smart bomb parts and they wanted to buy some fully automatic weapons for their security team, they do not have to pay for new tax stamps every time a CEO retires. They own them for as long as the company exists. Also, it would need to be a revocable trust so that it can be amended as necessary and not an irrevocable trust. I have waited to do mine (wanting a suppressor) for a couple of reasons. Lack of funds to buy the suppressor being the biggest one. Also, be aware that the ATF is trying to change the rules about how trusts and corporations are handled when it comes to the tax stamp. They are trying to make the process the same as getting an "individual tax stamp". You can research the proposed changes in this link:
http://blog.princelaw.com/category/firearms-law/atf/

If the gun is a registered machine gun you can put a barrel under 16'' on it without having to pay $200. Machine gun overrides SBR.

But after the first NFA tax stamp if you decide to get another you will have to list the NFA items in the trust on a schedule A that will also be sent to the ATF.

Anyone have one created by a gun trust lawyer that they would be willing to let me see to compare to the one I created through Willmaker? You would redact all personal info of course. Excuse my cheapness....

I think you need to learn to read before you make any more comments trying to put words in my comments that are not there. I never said I have earmarked anything for future descendants. My trust is made for living beneficiaries. The trust is a revokable trust which means it can be altered and changed. The trust exists so long as there is a beneficiary. Once the beneficiary that I have named becomes old enough to legally possess the item in the state of Texas, the trust can be altered to make him/her a fellow trustee and to change the beneficiary to a different individual(s). Completely legal and it is NOT a perpetuity. It's already been discussed with my trust lawyer.

Correct. A machine gun does not need an SBR stamp.

So let me get this straight,

1 trust ~$299
SBR stamp $200
Suppressor Stamp $200

Then I get the benefits of a trust, and I can add multiple suppressors and SBR lowers without
paying another $200 each?

No. Each individual nfa item gets its own stamp. Buy a suppressor need a stamp. Buy another suppressor need another stamp. The trust is so you don't have to get fingerprinted and signed off by your local leo for each form. At least that's my understanding... and as discussed above you can "transfer" the use of it by adding or changing trustees. You are changing the authorized user of the item not the owner because legally the trust owns it.

Any trustee named in the the trust can possess and use the NFA items. No need to change it.