October 13, 201511 yr http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/us/milwaukee-gun-store-trial.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news This is an interesting case and it gets at something I referred to in my first post about accountability. A gun was purchased legally then immediately changed hands off the record. I don't think lawsuits are the answer, especially since this appears to be "an unusually well-documented" case of straw-buying and Congress has bent over backwards to aid the gun industry with immunity. But, if there were some way for a third-party to monitor the transactions of firearms in such a way that you couldn't bypass it and there was teeth enough to its enforcement then straw-purchases would be virtually eliminated. Essentially, the friend who was the legal buyer would be implicated and charged because the gun registered to him was used in a crime. This would be effective in cases where the police couldn't find this kind of straightforward evidence to pinpoint the initial buyer. And it wouldn't stop anyone from lawfully buying or owning a gun.
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