By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga. | Kyle Rittenhouse may have a few more problems. There is a state law and a federal law that might bog him down for a spell. Wisconsin law makes no difference.
Perry
He enticed this sister’s boyfriend to purchase a gun for him. I think that enticement of an individual to break the law is a violation of the law itself. But there are two laws.
When you purchase a gun in the United States, if the gun is not bought from an individual, you fill out what is called a Firearm Transaction Record ATF form 4473. One thing that has to be checked is a question that states that you are not buying the gun for someone else. If you are doing that you are called a “strawman.” In order for the man who gets possession of that gun, he has to have checked that he was buying it for himself. He was not.
But the gun was bought in Illinois, which has its own restriction. You have to have a card called Firearm Owner’s Identification Document (FOID), which you have to have to buy ammunition or a weapon in Illinois. He enticed his sister’s boyfriend to buy that for him, violating Illinois Law.
Most probably, the person that bought the gun will never buy another gun in the United States or, if he does, he might go to prison because he will have to lie on that Federal form again. I would not be surprised if the ATF has not confiscated any and all guns that the man had or has.
I cannot speak with even a semblance of authority here, but things might be complicated if the gun that was bought illegally was used to kill a man – regardless of the outcome of the trial in Kenosha.
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