Back in September, the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland sued three FFLs for selling too many guns to the same person, under the theory that they should have known the guy was a straw purchaser.
I remember when we decided to switch from using blue guns to real guns for our holster making. We bought a lot of handguns pretty quickly. We have our own FFL now, but we definitely bought more than 34 guns in less than 5 months through our local gun store back then.
Being as that the guns in question were regulated by the state, requiring "not disapproved" status to complete the sale, the only entity that knew in real-time that the purchases were occurring was the state of Maryland. Can't hardly blame the FFLs if the state gave them the green light to proceed with the transfer.
I remember when we decided to switch from using blue guns to real guns for our holster making. We bought a lot of handguns pretty quickly. We have our own FFL now, but we definitely bought more than 34 guns in less than 5 months through our local gun store back then.
Straight to jail.
Being as that the guns in question were regulated by the state, requiring "not disapproved" status to complete the sale, the only entity that knew in real-time that the purchases were occurring was the state of Maryland. Can't hardly blame the FFLs if the state gave them the green light to proceed with the transfer.