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DonP

(6,185 posts)
3. Prosecute the hell out of them
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 07:32 PM
Oct 2015

They can't catch ever straw purchase but when it's obvious, err to the side of "No Sale".

I watched my LGS turn down a sale of a high end Kimber just this morning.

Guy in a suit walked in, showed his FOID card and asked about Kimbers, looked at a couple, then went out and came back in 5 minutes later with 2 other guys and asked to see the Kimbers again, then a lot of whispering and he wanted to buy one. The owner asked to see the FOID of the other two men and they refused/didn't have one.

She turned down a $1200 sale cold, The woman that owns the shop told him why, that it just looked too much like a straw purchase. He was bent out of shape, but she explained that a single straw sale could cost them their FFL and asked them to leave.

The shop has signs all over saying "No cell phone use", "No foreign language conversations at the counter" and a lot of the "Don't Lie for the Other Guy' posters everywhere.

Fines are nice but the max penalty if 10 years in Club Fed.

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