altajava
Newbie
A coworker who is over 21 wants to get his wife who is under 21 a handgun. I know at some level this should be legal but would this also be considered a straw purchase?
NO.
if he is buying the gun for her as a GIFT. and it indeed is HIS money purchasing the weapon. it is a gifting. and not a straw
however. if he is purchasing this gun FOR HER with HER MONEY in his name...........that is a straw purchase.
he can also purchase the firearm himself for himself, then gift it to her. but if she in anyway is involved with the purchase it is a straw.
The term "straw purchase" has been so convoluted by the thousands of different opinions, that I honestly think the term is now meaningless.
It only makes sense to talk in terms of what "actions" are legal and not legal.
I think most of the descriptions of actions in this thread are correct, but the debate on whether or not you can call any of them a straw purchase is a waste of time.
IMHO, of course.
My belief is that the phrase was first used to describe purchases that were designed to get around legal prohibitions. Since then, the Feds have tried to re-define the phrase to cover purchases that are indeed perfectly legal. I suspect they just want to have their nose in all purchases...
In any case... yeah, you can gift or loan a gun to an 18-20 year old, as long as they are not otherwise prohibited.
TFred (who hates what the Feds have done to our vocabulary)
Yes, my wife has reminded me of this from time to time.As his spouse, she already has a community property interest in all of his guns unless there was a prenuptial agreement to the contrary.
Yes, my wife has reminded me of this from time to time.
Remind her under common law you may beat her with a stick no larger than your thumb.
I remind mine of that often. She ignores me as usual, but I keep reminding.
A coworker who is over 21 wants to get his wife who is under 21 a handgun. I know at some level this should be legal but would this also be considered a straw purchase?
Hmmm...would that be the length of the stick or the width?
Hey, altajava, just wondering, do you know how your coworker decided what gun to get his wife? Did she try some out at the range? take a shooting class? ask her girlfriends?
Hmmm...would that be the length of the stick or the width?
+1000I would recomend that it be translated as width... becaue if I'm going to try something like that, it's gonna be a damn long stick.
Remind her under common law you may beat her with a stick no larger than your thumb.
I remind mine of that often. She ignores me as usual, but I keep reminding.
Remind yourself that you need to sleep at some point. ;-) Think burning bed....
No. It's not an illegal straw purchase unless she is legally prohibited from being in possession of a firearm.