straw purchase

The statute of limitations for "straw purchases" is five years.

In addition, the bill would prohibit all straw purchases.

But they said information from 1998 showed that out of nearly 700 investigations into straw purchases, 36 involved licensed dealers.

This exchange is known as a straw purchase.

"This is called a straw purchase," the clerk explained.

Federal firearms law prohibits straw purchases, but they are one of the most common ways that criminals get guns.

Pawar argues that gun liability insurance would curb straw purchases.

This is sometimes done through "straw purchases."

Nobody is in favor of straw purchases."

In addition to being hampered by Congress's failure to ban straw purchases, the bureau is allowed to inspect a dealer's records only once a year.

In some cases, the agent in the straw purchase may receive money or recompense from the ultimate possessor.

Straw purchases can be illegal in the United States when made at a federally licensed firearm dealership.

In these, city-paid private investigators attempted to illegally purchase handguns for other people (known as a "straw purchase").

The accomplice, who had no criminal record, then bought the guns for him, in front of the store owner, in what is known as a straw purchase.

A firearm purchased as a gift is not considered a straw purchase under U.S. federal law if the recipient may legally possess it.

Firearms dealers are under ever increasing pressure to avoid straw purchases - a purchase made by a non-prohibited person on behalf of a prohibited person.

State laws, such as those in California, that restrict the number of gun purchases in a month may help stem such "straw purchases."

Computer chips that would "personalize" guns for the owner, he said, would eliminate straw purchases and make the theft of guns useless.

If a firearm is purchased as a gift, the transaction is not a straw purchase, and the person buying the gift is considered the end user.

Straw purchase of property is legal as long as the strawperson is not part of an attempt to defraud a mortgage lender or other creditor.

The sales clerk did not question the young woman, although law-enforcement officials say the clerk should have known from the couple's behavior that it was an illegal straw purchase.

It is unclear precisely what measures Mr. Delfay, of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, has in mind to stop these so-called straw purchases.

Officials with the gun industry and the government, who have joined in an effort to make dealers aware of their legal responsibilities, said they did not believe that straw purchases were common.

Straw purchases made outside of federally regulated dealerships are not illegal unless the gun is used in a crime with the prior knowledge of the straw purchaser.

Gun rights groups claimed that this action was a straw purchase, intended to avoid the NICS, and may have also violated Delaware firearms purchase laws.