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You can buy it from your friend with no paperwork at all. The problem is, your friend has to take it from the FFL with the express purpose of making it his own gun, to add to his private collection - whether that collection be one gun or 100 guns. Once he obtains the gun with the purpose of making it his own, what he does with the gun later doesn't matter - so long as he doesn't provide it to a prohibited person.
If he obtains that gun for the specific purpose of providing it to you for compensation, and you also made those specific arrangements with him, it is a straw purchase.
It would be legal for him to obtain the gun to use as a gift - gifts of firearms are perfectly legal. But he would have to pay for the gun himself in order for it to be a gift, obviously.
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