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Related: About this forumYoung women in Minnesota being pressured to buy guns for criminals
Young women in Minnesota are being pressured to buy guns for criminals in exchange for cash -- a trend rarely seen across the country, authorities said on Thursday.
Women younger than 30 are being recruited by men ineligible to buy guns because of their criminal records, said Bernard Zapor, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' St. Paul division.
"It's an anomaly for us," Zapor said, adding that there are no concrete numbers on the trend.
In most cases the women know the men. They're handed cash to buy a gun that is immediately turned over to the ex-felon, an exchange called a "straw purchase." Sometimes, they aren't paid at all.
http://www.startribune.com/local/160772405.html
Hangingon
(3,071 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Was there something here you wanted to discuss?
petronius
(26,614 posts)On the one hand, straw sales need to be taken seriously and really should be prosecuted wherever possible. On the other hand, the women in question may not be acting entirely under their own volition, and may be sort of trapped (e.g. through abuse, or economic pressure) into doing what the male partner demands. Plus, even though it's the woman who could be prosecuted for the straw sale, she may not truly have a big share of culpability in the larger criminal scheme.
A similar happens in drug cases: women get caught holding or transporting drugs for someone else, and often end up with severe sentences because they're small fish with nothing to trade...
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)What do you want gun stores to do about it?
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I hope they are going to the cops and ATF instead of buying the guns.
Meiko
(1,076 posts)especially after being intimidated by a half crazy drug dealer and threaten with their life if they don't comply.Maybe he say's he will kill your family or beat the shit out of you. Or maybe he will let his gang member buddies rape you while he watches. You are going to buy the guns and you aren't going to say shit. We are dealing with low life drug dealing scum bag gang members here, they are the worst of humanity.
being in the woods kind of makes me out of touch. Drug dealers make the Kochs look like peace loving progressives.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)is "How does the criminal activity of some random drug dealer affect my right to keep and bear arms"?
Meiko
(1,076 posts)the politicians just won't admit it.