WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There are growing concerns among area law enforcement about so-called straw gun purchases. That’s when someone who can legally own a gun, buys it for ...

A straw purchase occurs when someone purchases a gun legally on behalf of another who is prohibited from making the purchase themselves.. The news conference comes about two months after the U.S ...

There's a push at the Minnesota State Capitol to increase penalties on straw gun ... Her bill would make gun straw purchases a felony instead of a ... or automatic state,” Rep. Berg explained.

Local political organizations host a panel at the Hughes Main Library, talk about challenges getting background check ...

However, most cases of straw purchases end up in federal court. Since 2014, there have been nine cases brought under the state statute, with just one of them — a 2017 Crow Wing County case ...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) held a news conference on Tuesday morning to announce the launch of an anti-gun trafficking campaign.

“On a straw purchase, someone is going in there, buying the firearm for somebody else and lying on the form that it is in fact for them when it really wasn’t,” explained Alcohol, Tobacco ...

Terrence Barker, 21, of Philadelphia, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to a 9- to 18-year sentence for participating in a multi-county gun trafficking network that illegally obtained and so… ...

The lawsuit cites criminal court filings which indicate that these vendors have collectively sold at least 158 guns to at least 32 straw purchasers between March 2018 and March 2022.

COURTHOUSE >> Acknowledging the seriousness of so-called “straw purchases,” a judge accepted a plea agreement that sent an Amity Township man to state prison for illegally transfe… ...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) held a news conference on Tuesday morning to announce the launch of an anti-gun trafficking campaign.