[TC Rider]

If you've bought before, and are already in the system, would it not have been better for you to make the official purchase, rather than give them the name previously unknown to them of yet another honest citizen?

Possibly, but then I would have been making a straw purchase for her and I have no desire to get a felony record!

Besides, my sweet Anne, being a former subject of the Commonwealth of Massachusets was determined to buy her first handgun herself. In a few weeks she'll be taking her class for a CCW, getting her name firmly embedded into the system anyway.

[Still Thinking]

Who says? You can't buy a gun as a gift for someone not legally prohibited from buying themselves? If BATF ever looked into this purchase, and why would they, it could easily be shown to be a gift and not a straw purchase.

[Still Thinking]

Oh, and I didn't miss the other reasons, which in her case certainly render the point moot. I was just saying I don't think doing the purchase that way would have qualified as a straw purchase.

[antisocial]

TC, as I understand the law it is only a violation of the law if you knowingly purchase a gun for someone who is not
legally entitled to own one due to a felony conviction or arrest and conviction for domestic violence.