Straw Purchase?

[Bunnykid68]

If a wife buys her husband a gun as a gift it is still 50% hers, maybe 100% if they get divorced.

 

[jevin]

To support this, from the ATF website:

"Federal law prohibits one person from purchasing firearms on another’s behalf except as a bona fide gift" [emphasis added.]

USAO Press Release - Houstonian Sentenced to Prison for Lying to Buy Guns

Yes. As far as I know, it is a straw purchase even if the person you are purchasing for is a legal and proper person. That is, if Mother Teresa (presuming she was a US citizen) asked you to buy a gun for her and gave you the money to do so, that would be a straw purchase!

 

[inccwchris]

Yes, however buying one as a gift is exempt from that and answering yes on the form is not incorrect as ATF says that is ok.