Lol none of this stuff is news, most of them come from big square states often in places where there is a lot of drug cash and drug using whores to buy the guns as straws. Often from ultra high volume dealers too. As long as the straw isnt mentally retarded its not that hard for them to buy a gun.
The thing I hate the most about these articles is they never really bother to tell the reader how difficult it is to actually detect a straw at the dealer level. You can really only stop the most lamest straw purchase attempts on the planet. Basically the only people that get stopped by dealers are ones who are stupid enough to start running their mouth about their soon to be
gun transaction details. Not to mention even if those people get stopped and kicked out of a store, a good % of them are likely to figure out "hey maybe I shouldn't have said that" and
then magically they shut the f*** up with the next dealer down the street and still get their gun they wanted.
Trying to stop straws is really a fools errand in this regard. No dealer wants to sell to a staw buyer (for a whole bunch of reasons) but there is a static limit to what you can actually do in the
real world. Nobody wants criminals buying guns from them but in the same stroke most shops don't want to look like one of those box stores or big garbage shops by having extrajudicial shitty mc faggot requirements. (Like there are shops that dont do 3 day default proceeds, and also likely some shops that ban all known gift purchases, too, despite both of these things being arguably 100% legal. )
now some jingocon is going to come in here and tell me "Maybe if the ATF actually prosecuted the straw purchasers harder it would make a difference" and to that I say, "doubt".
Most straws are either desperate people. Often drug abusers, or related to an abuser, trying to pay off a debt or have some other shitty position in life. If anyone thinks that people like that care about federal prison, thats just laughable.