Just saw a PSA on the Discovery Channel sponsored by both the BATFE and the NSSF. The campaign is "Don't lie for the other guy!" That is, don't be involved in a "straw purchase." It could land one 10 years in "the slammer."

Website for the Org - Dontlie.org

I think the commercial is on the right side of this website.

But to have something like this on the "Discovery Channel......" Hmmmm.... maybe a little "progress????"

 

ETA:  Found the Video on YouTube:   

 

There was a billboard in North jersey for it a few years ago. I forget where exactly it was. Bit there was one

They don't have those billboards in NYC because nobody can buy a handgun for themselves, let alone the other guy.

They don't have those billboards in NYC because nobody can buy a handgun for themselves, let alone the other guy.

Nice answer. 

They have those billboards in PA. I think I have also seen posters here and there.

That one question on a 4473.  They should enforce the full penalty of the law if you lie.

I've seen the billboards along 95

 

 

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They don't have those billboards in NYC because nobody can buy a handgun for themselves, let alone the other guy.

That is freakin hilarious !!!!!

It was a straw purchase that was the 'final straw' that helped foist New York's SAFE Act onto the good people of New York. 

 

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/a-straw-purchaser-gets-8-years-in-prison/?_r=0

My my. Don't lie unless you buy lye from a spry sly spy for a Thai guy with a dry eye. 

They don't have those billboards in NYC because nobody can buy a handgun for themselves, let alone the other guy.

 

If it weren't for guns the good old days of lying to buy something would be completely over. 

 

Remember "the carton of Camels and six pack are for my father, who's too sick to leave the house"?

 

No chance it would work today.

There was a billboard in North jersey for it a few years ago. I forget where exactly it was. Bit there was one

Used to be on 22 going North I think near Newark.

Newtonian. Youre right. Brings back memories. I was around 10 years old. After church every sunday my mother would send me into cumberland farms in w trenton to get a carton of kools and a gallon of milk. Coulda put mom away for a good couple of years nowadays.

80,000 felons in 2010 tried to buy a gun, only 44 were prosecuted by the Obama administration according to the NRA.  Good luck seeing any enforcement about straw purchases.  More talk, different agenda equals more BS  Politics all the way