November 22, 2009, 12:31 PM
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Junior member
Join Date: January 25, 2006
Location: Oak Harbor, WA
Posts: 1,719
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Originally Posted by blume357
The straw purchase 'law' is a bunch of crap and would never stand up in a real court anyway. In fact, I'm not even sure it is a law
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18 USC 922(a)(6):
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(a) It shall be unlawful—
(6) for any person in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of any firearm or ammunition from a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer, or licensed collector, knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended or likely to deceive such importer, manufacturer, dealer, or collector with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such firearm or ammunition under the provisions of this chapter;
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First question of the form 4473:
Are you the actual purchaser of the firearm?
That is the whole extent of the "straw purchase" statute.
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