Goliathan
NES Member
I've searched through here and come up with threads which present wildly different opinions at different times on the subject of buying guns as gifts, and whether or not they count as straw purchases.
We'd like to buy a .22LR rifle for a family member who has his LTC and is not PP and all of that stuff. Totally above board. For purposes of presentation and convenience, a gift card is not ideal; we'd very much like to present an actual rifle.
The instructions for the 4473 seem to me to make it clear that a legitimate gift is not a straw purchase, as there is no money changing hands and the recipient is not a PP. The FA-10 doesn't seem to care one way or another, near as I can tell.
Am I inviting disaster? Seems cut and dried to me; the wording on the 4473 instructions itself seem to say that a gift is A-OK and this is what we'd like to do.
I could perhaps make a temporary loan of the rifle and wait some discrete period of time before doing the eFA-10 to ward off suspicion, or maybe that doesn't matter. I'm not worried about burning one of my transfers for the year over this. I don't have enough of a collection to sell any of them!
Thanks
We'd like to buy a .22LR rifle for a family member who has his LTC and is not PP and all of that stuff. Totally above board. For purposes of presentation and convenience, a gift card is not ideal; we'd very much like to present an actual rifle.
The instructions for the 4473 seem to me to make it clear that a legitimate gift is not a straw purchase, as there is no money changing hands and the recipient is not a PP. The FA-10 doesn't seem to care one way or another, near as I can tell.
Am I inviting disaster? Seems cut and dried to me; the wording on the 4473 instructions itself seem to say that a gift is A-OK and this is what we'd like to do.
I could perhaps make a temporary loan of the rifle and wait some discrete period of time before doing the eFA-10 to ward off suspicion, or maybe that doesn't matter. I'm not worried about burning one of my transfers for the year over this. I don't have enough of a collection to sell any of them!
Thanks