Holy necropost Batman! .......always wanted to say that.
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A straw purchase is an illegal firearm purchase where the actual buyer of the gun, being unable to pass the required federal background check or desiring to not have his or her name associated with the transaction, uses a proxy buyer who can pass the required background check to purchase the firearm for him/her. It is highly illegal and punishable by a $250,000 fine and 10 years in prison.
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So, buying a gun as a gift for someone to whom it will eventually be transferred (or perhaps loaned for the statutory time period) who the original buyer fully expects to be qualified, is not a straw purchase. Long guns can be literally handed to the recipient, handguns should be registered using
http://ag.ca.gov/firearms/forms/pdf/oplaw.pdf ..........which can be used for vertical transferring, (son to dad, granddad, etc, spouses, and EVEN registered domestic partners.)