Be careful with that. I got a gun as a gift. I still had to go through NICS. Look at the BATF form 4473 carefully.
Could be a technicality. I have to double check the statutes and regs.
In this case he said he was buying it for somebody else BEFORE he bought it. We have two sets of laws to consder ~ AZ and US. Somewhere in there is the idea that you can't go around acting as a straw purchaser ~ and some have noted the law ~ which law? ~ says you may buy for personal use ~ but isn't this what ATF was killing hundreds of Mexicans by doing?
I think Kelly is showing us that existing laws, rarely enforced against high ranked politicians, do keep straw purchasers from using loopholes to buy firearms for other than personal use.