Folk's, believe it or not that type of situation almost arose at work yesterday,
01 Nov. 06~!
You see, two gentleman approached me at the gun sales counter; one of
whom I reconized as being a previous customer who had bought a handgun
and financed it through our 12 months cash as cash (NO interest) program,
as set up with one of the local finance companys. He proceeds to explain
that he has paid his weapon off; and now its time to help his buddy out
who needed a hunting rifle/scope/and ammo. He says to me, "Its OK for
my friend to use my credit to purchase this necessary equipment; as me
and my wife talked it over, and we feel this is the right thing to do".
Both parties were present, and both presented a vaild state of Alabama
drivers license as picture ID. Then, we verified the original customers
credit line with the finance company; and then verified with the ATF
that the said weapon was too be "gifted" to the recipient. That was
OK by them, so the 4473 was completed by the actual buyer; and the
sales contract was completed (and signed) by the borrower.
Moral of this story is, it is not illegal to gift a weapon to someone so long
as proper procedure is followed. So, all is well that ends well~!