Not when I was Parole Officer. But I had a large caseload and did not have time to investigate and try to prove intent. Even then there was no assurance the Parole Board would agree with me. You may not be aware of how crowded most prisons are and how long the waiting list is to get inside.
I just require a concealed carry permit
That eliminates that problem
Good decision. I'm interested to hear the logic from the 5 people in the poll that said to do nothing.
For basically the same reason that BSA1 listed above. The likelihood that anything will happen to the guy legally even if he is the correct guy that you found online is extremely low.
I worked at a Gunstore for a little over two years in the late 90's and one of my first lessons into how things actually work came after a man who was trying to buy a gun got denied for the first time during my first week in gun sales. After he was denied he flat out admitted that he had several strikes against him in California and he "just wanted to see if it would go through since it's been a long time".
After he left the store I asked the manager "so what do we do now?" Call the police, the ATF? What?"
He said go file the 4473 and the store sales paper in the grey cabinet with all the others and then went on to explain to me how only 17 felons were prosecuted nationwide annually the year before for trying to buy a gun at the time. So the store wasn't going to do anything.
So a total of 17 prosecutions for felons and other prohibited persons trying to buy a gun in the entire country. On what would be slam dunk cases where criminals are trying to buy a gun to potentially commit a robbery, hot burglary or commit a violent act against someone. 17?!!! All 50 States and at the time a little under 300 million people iirc.
During the later Obama years I remembered the interaction with both my manager and the felon as a result of some thread on a gun forum and looked up the then current number prosecuted across the entire nation. Once again the number of felons prosecuted was extremely low, they were in the twenties. Again, 20-something people for all 50 States. Those people must have been under close investigation at the time and they must have not been able to charge them with anything else. Either that or they had the worst luck ever.
The more things change the more things stay the same. So much for prosecuting felons under existing gun laws rather than trying to make new gun laws.
On a related note, I have 4 guns I'm getting rid of because I don't shoot. The risk of a felon getting them is a real concern for my wife. So much so that he is urging me to take the loss and sell them back to a FFL.
Currently when selling a gun I just do the same thing as John Will and just ask for a current copy of their CHL and if they don't have a CHL then I don't sell them the gun.
If they're a felon or other prohibited possessor they won't have one of those.
Edit : I just looked, in 2016 the number of prosecutions rose to a whopping 32. Woo wee.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/15/e...d-criminals-who-sought-to-buy-guns-illegally/
See what I mean?
Apparently prosecutions are up under Trump though.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ssion-23-percent-president-trump-ag-sessions/
