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Gun Control & RKBA

SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Tue May 3, 2016, 08:16 AM May 2016

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

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

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Couple charged in straw purchase of AK-47 at Farm Show Complex (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP

Alternative headline: "Gun Law Works as Designed When Enforced" DonP May 2016 #1

Aternate headline: 'Not Much Happened Today, In Other News.....' CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #2

and they can get up to ten years gejohnston May 2016 #3

About time someone enforced the existing laws. JonathanRackham May 2016 #4

DonP

(6,185 posts)

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

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2016, 09:39 AM

May 2016

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?