Assuming she were buying the gun for someone else, what does the retail jockey care? It’s not like the ATFs gonna come down on them for something they couldn’t know. Something nobody possibly could know.
Or maybe the feds to come down on them. “Please hand over your security tapes. An informant says you sold something to an appropriate adult who knows other people and is physically capable of handing said product to undesirables.”
I wonder why people in genrral comply with most laws. Fear, I guess. But the government barely cracks the surface now. It could be like prohibition all over again for an awful lot if red tape had we the guts.
Durn right it's fear. Who would want to be dumped in with the general population in a prison? The law doesn't distinguish between prisoners of conscience and regular prisoner.
Significantly, the lower class lacks that fear - but that's one of the reasons why they're lower class.