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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)I took a perfect case, with a confession of a straw purchase to the BATFE.
They interviewed the guilty party to see if they could use her as an informant on anything bigger, didn't think they could, and let her go. Both the BATFE and US Astorney said they didn't want to waste time on Suzy Trailer Trash who just lied on a form.
Its a Federal law, so I had no authority to do anything other than tell the Feds.
They don't enforce it.
Hell, they didn't even prosecute the girlfriend who bought the guns for the Columbine shooters.
They also only follow up on cases where someone gets denied in a background check in 2-3% of cases. And for a person to get denied that means they filled out the form 4473 saying they are legal to purchase- under penalty of perjury- and they were not. That's a felony in itself. So this person is already ineligible to own a gun, just tried to buy one an a committed a felony while doing it, they have hard proof of the form with his signature on the form-
And the BATF and FBI don't do squat, leaving that felon to walk out the door and try illegal means...