It sounds to me like she said the ‘magic words’ that indicate that it was a straw purchase. The clerk then responded by keeping himself out of prison.
Government stings look just like this. If you are purchasing a firearm as a present (perfectly legal) DO NOT tell the clerk. If you are accompanying your spouse to purchase a firearm, do not be making a lot of statements about which one to purchase.
Dealers are required to infer a straw sale and then refuse to sell.
Dealers are required to infer a straw sale and then refuse to sell.
So if I take my husband with me to purchase a firearm that I’m going to use and register in my name and I simply ask my husband a few questions or ask his opinion on what I should purchase, that makes us both criminals? Really? So am I better off going to the gun store all by myself, perhaps with a list of written questions or call him on my cell phone to ask his opinion? What if I don’t make any verbal statements but communicate with him in sign language? That to me those would all be bigger red flags.