A common question revolves around the transfer of firearms and whether that is considered a straw purchase. When transferring firearms between immediate family members, it’s legal if all parties are legally eligible to own firearms. For example, a parent purchasing a firearm to gift to their chi...
Good Question.Straw purchasing is when someone buys a gun for another person who isn't legally allowed to own one, such as felons.Two Minnesotans were recently charged and convicted for committing the crime dozens of times. One of the guns was used in a deadly mass shooting last year i...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- A Chicago man has been indicted on federal firearm charges after allegedly straw purchasing handguns for another person at a suburban Chicago store, officials said. Justin Garcia, 24, bought two guns — one in 2019 and one in 2020 — from a licensed firearms dealer...
Nowhere among that list of information to be kept on file, however, is that covered by question 11.a: whether the person initially purchasing the gun is the “final buyer.” Therefore, he could not have violated §924(a)(1)(A) by having lied in response to that question. ...
Straw purchasing is when someone buys a gun for another person who isn't legally allowed to own one, such as felons. Two Minnesotans were recently charged and convicted for committing the crime dozens of times. One of the guns was used in a deadly mass shooting last year in St. Paul....