Comment by refurb
5 years ago
CA has most of these already. They just instituted a requirement for a background check for ammo purchases.
One of the biggest problems is your last point - non-compliance isn’t really enforced. If you ask your friend to buy a gun for you because you’re not eligible, the dealer might stop the transaction, but there is a very low likelihood there will be any police follow up.
That is a federal crime and there are absolutely cases that have been prosecuted. I would not mess around with the ATF.
It is a federal law and occasionally they prosecute the most egregious examples, but I've heard from many gun dealers that when they suspect a straw purchase and report it, the ATF follows up maybe 1% of the time.
Or when both parties passed the background check. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramski_v._United_States
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