re: #218 William Lewis

If this is true, then both the buyer and seller committed a federal felony offense good for a 10 year vacation at Club Fed. The only way a sale of a long arm to an out of state person is legal is if the firearm is shipped to a FFL in the buyers home state and the background check is completed there. If the buyer left that store with rifle in hand, a straw purchase was committed. The reporter, BTW, has no immunity to prosecution for this felony either.

That neither buyer or seller appears to have noticed this small issue points out the real problem - that BATFE is chronically underfunded and can not enforce the laws already on the books.

Um William, that applies to handguns but it has been legal to buy long guns out of state since 1986 when the Firearms Owner’s Protection Act was passed.