08-15-2024, 01:20 AM
Not a straw purchase. Bonafide gifts are allowed under the current rules. I have dealt with the ATF on this very subject several times. They saw a purchase and looked into it and the buyer had given it as a gift. They tried to say it was a straw purchase we allowed to happen and we needed to prove to them that it wasn't. I told them that isn't how the law works, the burden is on them to prove that it wasn't a gift and then prove that we could possibly know that it was. That put a wrench in their gears because the purchaser told them it was a gift and that he hadn't told us he was buying it as a gift.
If the other person can't legally purchase the gun then it is law enforcements responsibility to charge the purchaser with transferring a firearm to a prohibited person and the prohibited person for being in possession. But that literally never happens, just like the millions of transactions where a person lies on the 4473, I know of 1 case that has ever been prosecuted and that was of the president's son. 99.9% of the other people who lie are never even charged.
If the other person can't legally purchase the gun then it is law enforcements responsibility to charge the purchaser with transferring a firearm to a prohibited person and the prohibited person for being in possession. But that literally never happens, just like the millions of transactions where a person lies on the 4473, I know of 1 case that has ever been prosecuted and that was of the president's son. 99.9% of the other people who lie are never even charged.
