I’ve literally bought dozens of weapons and to a tee, any seller that hears you aren’t the intended recipient will invariably require you have the giftee come in and fill out the form.
You have to realize that the ATF is a very capricious and arbitrary organization and while their ‘instructions’ may indicate one thing, what they are telling the sellers is a different story. They specify ridiculous abbrieviation instructions and stipulations. In many cases they require a specific ink color. Often, they treat each seller differently and make other stipluations based on the level of kickback they receive.
Finally, they (ATF) is 100% POLITICAL and blow the way of the Democrat wind. If you’ve filled out one of their forms, you’d have noticed that they’ve added ANOTHER meaningless question that you HAVE to answer...that question is whether you are of hispanic origin or not. THis is in addition to the optional ‘race’ question. Why be dat?
“any seller that hears you aren’t the intended recipient will invariably require you have the giftee come in and fill out the form.”
The seller won’t know anything...the form says you can answer ‘yes’ to the question, if its a bona fide gift.
No matter what your personal experience may have been, it does not change the fact that Kelly has an escape hatch when accused (in the court of public opinion) of a straw purchase. Its a bad tree to be barking up, because it goes nowhere.
I’d rather concentrate on asking questions about his bogus story - if this was a ‘stunt’, did he film himself filling out the form? Did he photo-copy any of the paperwork? Did anyone from his PAC or whatever organization he says participated in this accompany him to the store? If the purpose of the stunt was to demonstrate how easy it was to make a purchase...why choose one with a 20 day waiting period? What exactly was the ‘stunt’ supposed to prove?...and Mr. Kelly, are you a Sig fan?
Lots of questions to ask, if a reporter wanted to go deeper...but the straw purchase angle is an absolute waste of time.