Interstate Familial Transfer/Straw Purchase Questio

[gbran]

Dad is in Reno NV, I'm in CA. If he wants to gift me a firearm via familial transfer, he and I can find agreeable NV and CA FFL's to ship and receive to.
I go to the CA FFL and go thru DROS, 4473, 10 day wait etc. To legally obtain the handgun.

Questions:

Under these circumstances, can this transfer be for an off-roster handgun?

Also, under the same circumstances, when is a transfer suspected to be a straw purchase?

Dad buys a handgun and gifts it to me some years later. Or dad buys a handgun in NV from an FFL, decides a week later he doesn't really like it and transfers it to me. Would this be assumed to be a straw purchase?

BTW, I bought a new handgun about a moth ago, and after fondling it, I just plain decided I don't want to keep it. I will sell it unfired as soon as i can.

 

[newfalguy101]

In simple terms, a strawman purchase happens when an individual buys or otherwise obtains a firearm on behalf of another person.

Buying a gun and deciding at some point its just not what you want and selling it is fine.

Buying a gun for your buddy or relative because they can't would be a strawman purchase.

The other questions, I don't know

 

[Librarian]

Under these circumstances, can this transfer be for an off-roster handgun?

Yes.

Call ahead to the CA FFL; if they tell you 'just file the form', find a new FFL who understands interstate transfer.

Also, under the same circumstances, when is a transfer suspected to be a straw purchase?

Abramski

 

[gbran]

Thank you again.