GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

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I agree. I also question weather or not the straw buyers definition would include family members gifting to other family. Lets just say that Little Johnnies dad wants to buy Little Jonnie a 22 rifle as a Christmas gift. Would that be considered a straw purchase? As it is a minor can not purchase a firearm, but they can own one if gifted to them. I fear that would change depending on the definition of straw purchase.

I actually think dad should probably be considered criminally liable, under straw purchasing or negligence statutes, if he gifts little Johnnie a gun that little Johnnie couldn't have purchased on his own and little Johnnie uses it to commit a crime.

Of course, Johnnie would be criminally liable too.

Negligence , possibly. Stray buyer, no. It is legal to buy and gift a gun to a minor child. Well, that is as the law is written now.