fiddletown,
You have been charitable and patient in explaining the law here. Thank you. And I firmly second your remark about local law enforcement officers not being experts on federal gun laws. Heck, many of them are ignorant of state laws, as evidenced over the years by legal open carriers being proned out and arrested (Philadelphia, and Fairfax and Norfolk, Virginia leap to mind).
The original question isn't that difficult, folks. This is clearly a straw purchase. Nothing in the law absolves the NC relative of lying on the 4473 when he affirmed he is the "actual purchaser," a term of art, if you will, of the firearm. Unless he bought it with his own money (without reimbursement from the NY relative) and gave it gratis to the NY relative, then he lied on the 4473.
Case closed.
An unlikely case for prosecution, perhaps, but a violation of federal law, nonetheless.
You have been charitable and patient in explaining the law here. Thank you. And I firmly second your remark about local law enforcement officers not being experts on federal gun laws. Heck, many of them are ignorant of state laws, as evidenced over the years by legal open carriers being proned out and arrested (Philadelphia, and Fairfax and Norfolk, Virginia leap to mind).
The original question isn't that difficult, folks. This is clearly a straw purchase. Nothing in the law absolves the NC relative of lying on the 4473 when he affirmed he is the "actual purchaser," a term of art, if you will, of the firearm. Unless he bought it with his own money (without reimbursement from the NY relative) and gave it gratis to the NY relative, then he lied on the 4473.
Case closed.
An unlikely case for prosecution, perhaps, but a violation of federal law, nonetheless.