This is not new.
Before Algore made the Internet a home appliance, a New York newspaper sent a couple of reporters to Florida.
One of them bought a pistol with fake ID and many lies on 4473, then transported an undeclared firearm on an airplane in to NYC without registration. Multiple state and federal crimes. "But he wasn't doing anything WRONG. He was showing how easy it was for REAL criminals to get guns."
There were no legal or professional penalties then, there won't be now or any of the other "investigations" by Left Liberal new media and antis like Bloomberg.