buying a gun for a friend.
12-11-2009, 04:53 PM
#1
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
buying a gun for a friend.
Is it legal for a person to buy a gun for a friend for xmas present or birthday gift. I have a good friend who is wanting a rifle. Well a 10/22 i am thinking about getting him it for a xmas/birthday gift as there around the same time. Can i legaly got buy it myself and give it to him. Or would he need to go pick it up and fill out the NCIC check. I am not talking a straw purchase. He has bought three handguns and has a CCP. SO it is not like he can not buy one. I am also not to worried about the thing of it being bought in my name. He is 75 and has never had anything more then a speeding ticket.
12-11-2009, 05:08 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Arkansas Ozarks
Posts: 325
I'm no lawyer, but I don't see any problem in it. Before we turn 18, that's the only way we can get a rifle/shotgun. It's not like you have knowledge he cannot lawfully own a gun, or you know he will use it in a criminal act.
12-11-2009, 05:14 PM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,679
If you are buying an actual gift for someone with your money and not theirs then it is perfectly legal.
If you are buying a gun for someone else that is not permitted to own a firearm for what ever reason it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone with the intention of them paying you back then it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone else that is not permitted to own a firearm for what ever reason it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone with the intention of them paying you back then it is illegal.
12-11-2009, 05:16 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
kind of what i figured. When i bought my glock i was saving money and he offered to go buy it and let me pay him back in payments. I did not as i was worried it might be on the line alittle to much. Though i guess i could have bought it myself with his money. Just did not want to risk it.
If you are buying an actual gift for someone with your money and not theirs then it is perfectly legal.
If you are buying a gun for someone else that is not permitted to own a firearm for what ever reason it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone with the intention of them paying you back then it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone else that is not permitted to own a firearm for what ever reason it is illegal.
If you are buying a gun for someone with the intention of them paying you back then it is illegal.
