I am trying to figure out what makes sense about the straw purchase laws. Perhaps someone can explain it in a way that makes some sense.
The way I understand it if I win a gun, say in a raffle and that is exactly where this all came to light, but I want to give the gun to a relative instead of taking it myself the store with FFL and doing the background check has to do the check on me, the winner, and give the gun to me instead of doing the background check on the person I am giving the gun to. If they did the background check on who I am giving the gun too, even though they and I both passed the background check they and both parties involved could be charged with a straw purchase.
Yet they can do the background check on me, give me the gun and I can immediately walk outside the store and give the gun to the first person I see walking down the street. As long as I don't know they aren't allowed to have a gun there is no straw purchase law broken. They don't need to pass a background check to legally get the gun but yet a person who just had and passed a background check can't take the gun without committing a crime?
That sounds completely backwards and doesn't make any sense at in my view.
Can someone who is familiar with the straw purchase laws explain that to me?
Dick Bodenhorn
The way I understand it if I win a gun, say in a raffle and that is exactly where this all came to light, but I want to give the gun to a relative instead of taking it myself the store with FFL and doing the background check has to do the check on me, the winner, and give the gun to me instead of doing the background check on the person I am giving the gun to. If they did the background check on who I am giving the gun too, even though they and I both passed the background check they and both parties involved could be charged with a straw purchase.
Yet they can do the background check on me, give me the gun and I can immediately walk outside the store and give the gun to the first person I see walking down the street. As long as I don't know they aren't allowed to have a gun there is no straw purchase law broken. They don't need to pass a background check to legally get the gun but yet a person who just had and passed a background check can't take the gun without committing a crime?
That sounds completely backwards and doesn't make any sense at in my view.
Can someone who is familiar with the straw purchase laws explain that to me?
Dick Bodenhorn