The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) defines the straw purchase of firearms as "purchasing ... ways to stop illegal trafficking. The issue has attracted federal attention, too.

Keeping guns out of the hands of prohibited people is the subject of a federal campaign against "straw" firearm purchases ...

If that firearm is used in the commission of a violent crime, the sentence will grow to five years behind bars. Minnesota's new straw purchaser ... someone asks them to buy a gun.

Two men living in the Texas border town of Edinburg have been sentenced for their role in straw purchasing firearms related ...

unless the 9th Circuit issues a new stay, Californians may now apply to purchase multiple firearms within a 30-day period. FPC intends to make Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta ...

How can a firearms industry member reliably determine whether a legally sold product will be misused or later transferred ...

“This havoc was wreaked in our community by only one of the guns that Cooper straw purchase,” Greenberg ... "Gun violence is a complicated issue with several contributing factors and potential ...

A Phillips County woman who admitted to the straw purchase of two firearms from a Helena-West ... sentence would be sufficient to address all issues except general deterrence.

Alonzo Poole Jr., 44, of Pittston, went with Mariah Raven Zimmerman, 29, of Hughestown, at two firearm ... issue, court records say. Authorities learned of Poole's alleged plan to purchase ...

NO WORD YET WHEN THE ISSUE WILL BE COMPLETELY FIXED ... second Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to the illegal straw purchase of a firearm found at the scene of the mass shooting at Union ...

Alonzo Poole Jr., 44, of Pittston, went with Mariah Raven Zimmerman, 29, of Hughestown, at two firearm ... issue, court records say. Authorities learned of Poole’s alleged plan to purchase ...