Couple charged in straw purchase of AK-47 at Farm Show Complex

[SecularMotion]

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Harrisburg couple has been charged in a straw purchase of a semi-automatic rifle at the Farm Show Complex.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Michael Miller and Janis Tolan with conspiracy to make a false statement in connection to the purchase of an AK-47 at a gun show in December 2015.

The two allegedly purchased the rifle from a licensed dealer, while Tolan submitted identification for the vendor and filled out a form to name her as the purchaser. This, authorities say, was a violation of federal law seeing as she acted as a straw purchaser for Miller.

http://local21news.com/news/local/couple-charged-in-straw-purchase-of-ak-47-at-farm-show-complex

[DonP]

1. Alternative headline: "Gun Law Works as Designed When Enforced"

The article doesn't provide much in the way of detail, (if you actually read beyond the headline) but you have to assume Miller is a prohibited person.

So it seems that the existing laws are working just fine, right?

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

2. Aternate headline: 'Not Much Happened Today, In Other News.....'

[gejohnston]

3. and they can get up to ten years

but if they get much more than a couple of months probation, that would be news.

[JonathanRackham]

4. About time someone enforced the existing laws.

That's half the battle.