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In a rare victory for common sense in the gun debate

Nice of the article's author to let us know their bias at the very beginning.

So what happens if I buy the gun, take it to the range, decide I don't like it, and sell it to a third party?

So what happens if I buy the gun, take it to the range, decide I don’t like it, and sell it to a third party?

I am not a lawyer but as I understand it, you can sell a firearm to a resident of your state (as long as your state laws permit it) without any paperwork or background checks. But transferring of firearms between different states requires that the transfer be done at a dealer. This is how the law has been for many years.

Straw purchases are when one person provides money so that a second person can purchase a firearm for him—which is what happened here. His argument was that since the guy he was buying for was legal for gun ownership, the straw purchase law should not apply. The court said that that is not what the law actually says.

As for gifting, you can buy your wife a gun and as long as she doesn’t give you the money for it, you are fine. Your out-of-state children can inherit your firearms without paperwork as long as the firearms are mentioned in your will.

None of this is to say that all of this isn’t an infringement on our rights to acquire and dispose of property as we see fit. But it has been the law for firearm transfers for some time. Perhaps the law should be changed.