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Actually, that is not the name of the crime. The crime has no "shorthand" name.
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You lawyers just love to argue. LOL guess I should have been one.
A "straw purchase" or "straw-man purchase" by definition is any purchase where a "Buyer" uses a third party to purchase something from a seller for any reason that the buyer can't do it himself.
A straw purchase is not nesessarily a crime.
If you have me pick you up a pack of smokes because I'm at the store and your not that's by definition a straw purchase.Now that can certianly become a crime if you are under 18.
Therefore any crime involving a third party purchasing a firearm either transfering to a prohibited person or just lying on the form is by definition a straw purchase.
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The particular crime that Aguila Blanca has referred is properly called simply a violation of 18 USC 922(d), or a conspiracy to violate 18 USC 922(g), or perhaps a violation of 18 USC 922(h), depending on the exact circumstances.
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part of the reason for that is it would not have had to be a "straw purchase" for it to be an illegal act.If for instance said girl friend buys gun legally for herself for protection when BF is in jail. for the argument she can even use his money. when he's released at the point she tranfers the gun to his possesion it becomes a crime.