My 20 yo son is in that AR stage where he is building his AR switching out barrels, making mods and all that and now he has alot of spare parts. He bought a 80% lower and made a mess in my shop cutting it out before he gave up on a mess, he had to clean up. He paid $20 for it.
He said he has enough spare parts at this point to build me a rifle for about a $100. I said let's build one but I am not really into the AR craze. I am more a classic vintage rifle guy so I don't know much about what we need. So we go to a gun store where he saw Anderson Lowers for $59. He can't buy a lower because he is 20 and technically because you could build one of those idiotic sawed off abortion AR pistols they are sold as a handgun and have to be 21.
He bought all his ARs because he only had to be 18.
So we pick out the lower and the gun shop said they can't sell "ME" the lower because he looked at it first and it's considered a straw purchase now and I could go to jail and they could be fined and the manager came over and explained they couldn't sell me the part because he showed interest in the gun etc... So I said fine no big deal. Not asking you to do something your not comfortable with etc.. so we continue looking around the store at magazines, ammo and stuff and this older gentleman comes in and he is looking at pistols and he goes on to say he wants to get something for his wife to carry in the car, light but not to little with not much recoil. So they are showing him .380s and .38 specials and after a while he decides to go with a .38 Special lightweight Smith Wesson for $519. So he says he will buy it and he has his concealed weapon permit so he can waive the three days and they get him the forms and he starts filling them out so I saunter over and ask the manager isn't that a straw purchase? And he got all white and he is well no because he is alone and it only for his wife to carry not own and I said but he clearly said it's for his wife, what's his wife's age? Do you know his wife isnt a felon and she can even carry a gun. Shouldn't his wife being buying the gun and the guy buying the gun looks all bewidered. I said I am going to check with the ATF about this sounds like you are selling straw purchases but only if it's over $500.
I have no intention of contacting the ATF but what a bunch of jack donkey's.
I hope I ruined his afternoon anyway.
He said he has enough spare parts at this point to build me a rifle for about a $100. I said let's build one but I am not really into the AR craze. I am more a classic vintage rifle guy so I don't know much about what we need. So we go to a gun store where he saw Anderson Lowers for $59. He can't buy a lower because he is 20 and technically because you could build one of those idiotic sawed off abortion AR pistols they are sold as a handgun and have to be 21.
He bought all his ARs because he only had to be 18.
So we pick out the lower and the gun shop said they can't sell "ME" the lower because he looked at it first and it's considered a straw purchase now and I could go to jail and they could be fined and the manager came over and explained they couldn't sell me the part because he showed interest in the gun etc... So I said fine no big deal. Not asking you to do something your not comfortable with etc.. so we continue looking around the store at magazines, ammo and stuff and this older gentleman comes in and he is looking at pistols and he goes on to say he wants to get something for his wife to carry in the car, light but not to little with not much recoil. So they are showing him .380s and .38 specials and after a while he decides to go with a .38 Special lightweight Smith Wesson for $519. So he says he will buy it and he has his concealed weapon permit so he can waive the three days and they get him the forms and he starts filling them out so I saunter over and ask the manager isn't that a straw purchase? And he got all white and he is well no because he is alone and it only for his wife to carry not own and I said but he clearly said it's for his wife, what's his wife's age? Do you know his wife isnt a felon and she can even carry a gun. Shouldn't his wife being buying the gun and the guy buying the gun looks all bewidered. I said I am going to check with the ATF about this sounds like you are selling straw purchases but only if it's over $500.
I have no intention of contacting the ATF but what a bunch of jack donkey's.
I hope I ruined his afternoon anyway.