Scott Griffy, Terre Haute, who provided the gun Shaun Seeley used to kill Terre Haute police officer Brent Long in July 2011.
Tarus Blackburn Jr., who provided the gun Demetrious Martin, 23, used in the December 2011 nonfatal shooting of IMPD officer Dwayne Runnels.
Not the first and won't be the last.
The gun used to murder IMPD's David Moore was obtained via straw purchase, and the buyer got 57 months in prison.
A quick search just in Indiana, also shows convictions for:
Should have been twice that.
So the questions of are you an Indiana resident and are you a proper person are not enough in a person to person transaction?
Now proving a true straw purchase is totally different. If you go into a store purchase the gun and then deliver it to a known improper person. Then yes 57 months is to light a sentence.
This is is one of the reasons I (when selling) do a paper receipt with my drivers license number and the buyers drives license numbers and name recorded. One copy goes with the purchase on stays in my book. That at least proves residency for Indiana. My sale my rules but also get some flack once in a while here when selling. (Being mainly a collector and retainer I don’t sell many).
So the questions of are you an Indiana resident and are you a proper person are not enough in a person to person transaction?
Now proving a true straw purchase is totally different. If you go into a store purchase the gun and then deliver it to a known improper person. Then yes 57 months is to light a sentence.
This is is one of the reasons I (when selling) do a paper receipt with my drivers license number and the buyers drives license numbers and name recorded. One copy goes with the purchase on stays in my book. That at least proves residency for Indiana. My sale my rules but also get some flack once in a while here when selling. (Being mainly a collector and retainer I don’t sell many).
So the questions of are you an Indiana resident and are you a proper person are not enough in a person to person transaction?
Now proving a true straw purchase is totally different. If you go into a store purchase the gun and then deliver it to a known improper person. Then yes 57 months is to light a sentence.
This is is one of the reasons I (when selling) do a paper receipt with my drivers license number and the buyers drives license numbers and name recorded. One copy goes with the purchase on stays in my book. That at least proves residency for Indiana. My sale my rules but also get some flack once in a while here when selling. (Being mainly a collector and retainer I don’t sell many).
this situation wasn't selling a gun to someone on INGO.
this gentleman received funds, plus $100 to go buy the gun for the accused, a felon. He knew the accused could not own a firearm.
I would never purchase a firearm from you!
I would also like to mention that when someone posts a gun up in the classifieds with all the CYA requirements they tend to languish in there. Asking for all of this from an Ingo member to me is a real push. No knock. CYA as you feel the need. Your item. You set the rules. I just know that the 200 or so Ingo members I know personally will step right over that item.
I would also like to mention that when someone posts a gun up in the classifieds with all the CYA requirements they tend to languish in there.
Probably because they also tend to be on the upper end of pricing. One might even suppose post-flip pricing of the "I'm totally not a business" type.
Smith was sentenced to three years in prison in 2009 on a burglary conviction with an added enhancement of having a gun.
Even with adders for gun use, it appears there is very little deterrence to people intent on being criminals. Huh...