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Buying a pistol for my grandson
- Thread starter alex4922
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You can buy a gun as a family member and give it to your son as a gift, all day long, every day. That's not a straw purchase. If you buy one solely for the purpose of handing it over to some non family in the parking lot, yeah that's a problem. We sell and order guns all the time that the husband, wife, parent may order, pay the bill and even 4473 it and immediately hand it to their spouse or kid in our presence. And if they get home and gift the gun to their 17 year old son, that happens all the time. You can also buy a gun, keep it for a week and make a private sale with no penalty on small scale basis.
The person who will be purchasing it is the buyer. Just as if they walked into a brick and mortar and picked a gun off the wall. They are the actual purchaser, just as it's spelled out in question a.
If person X fill out the form and pays for the gun, great. If person X fills out the form and person Y whips out the credit card to pay. Nope. Straw sale.
Of course and they don't even have to be a family member. Relationship doesn't matter, you're legal or you're not. You can't legally break the law for a son or mother, but if you're buying it because they are not able to, that's a straw purchase.
Why don't you just give him a gift of money and simplify this whole issue.....?
Seems like someone is asking a whole bunch of irrelevant questions....
Seems like someone is asking a whole bunch of irrelevant questions....
You guys shoot me down on this, but one option is to find out whether the store offers gift cards. If they do, you as the giver just buy a gift card in the name of the recipient. If not, give the recipient a pile of cash.
Then, he uses that gift card (in his name) or cash to make the purchase him/herself. The transaction is therefore clearly with the gift recipient's. 4473's get completed, and the gift recipient gets to take posession of his gun without any ambiguity.
Edit: I see
Red Squirrel 556
beat me to the punch.
Then, he uses that gift card (in his name) or cash to make the purchase him/herself. The transaction is therefore clearly with the gift recipient's. 4473's get completed, and the gift recipient gets to take posession of his gun without any ambiguity.
Edit: I see
Red Squirrel 556
beat me to the punch.
I guess the question is whether the gun has already been paid for or not.You guys shoot me down on this, but one option is to find out whether the store offers gift cards. If they do, you as the giver just buy a gift card in the name of the recipient. If not, give the recipient a pile of cash.
Then, he uses that gift card (in his name) or cash to make the purchase. The transaction is therefore the gift recipient's. 4473's get completed, and the gift recipient gets to take posession of his gun without any ambiguity.
Edit: I see
You can designate or give that gun to your 17yo kid as a gift. Obviously you would need to supervise, waiver them at a range and may legally own the gun, but the kid could still consider that gun in the family safe, as his. I know that is splitting hairs.
