[11Bush]

Not true. Question #12a requires a ‘Yes’ answer.

Are you the actual buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form?

[allmendream]

Maybe the forms are different state to state or was different way back when I heard the story.

In California, from what I heard (haven't yet purchased a firearm from a dealer here in CA) they made the form “idiot proof” in formulating the questions such that “No” was the correct answer to all of the questions.

Or maybe it just made a better story that way! That is the trouble with recounting hearsay. ;)