I'm new here but I had a question that's proving on the difficult side to clarify with google-fu, and you guys seem pretty knowledgeable so I'll give it a shot here.
I want to buy a firearm online and already put in my bid. I don't have a debit/credit card(i only have a savings account/ATM card which won't work over the internet, I'm not completely poor, I'm just picky about the fees they charge for those things), so I was planning to borrow a family member's credit card to use, then just give them my own cash so they can just pay off what I charge to it instantly.
The problem with that is I'm now reading that it's illegal to buy a gun for someone else. Although someone else isn't actually buying me the gun and I was planning to get the background check done on myself, I'm worried the law might think I'm buying the gun for the person who owns the card or something. I read that they're getting really picky with this crap lately.
This would be the first time I've bought a gun from a dealer and having to go through filling out the forms/background check(so I'm not 110% familiar with the process), so any advice would be appreciated on which way to fill that out in regards to this, as well as possibly needing to change method of payment.
Thank you in advance.
I want to buy a firearm online and already put in my bid. I don't have a debit/credit card(i only have a savings account/ATM card which won't work over the internet, I'm not completely poor, I'm just picky about the fees they charge for those things), so I was planning to borrow a family member's credit card to use, then just give them my own cash so they can just pay off what I charge to it instantly.
The problem with that is I'm now reading that it's illegal to buy a gun for someone else. Although someone else isn't actually buying me the gun and I was planning to get the background check done on myself, I'm worried the law might think I'm buying the gun for the person who owns the card or something. I read that they're getting really picky with this crap lately.
This would be the first time I've bought a gun from a dealer and having to go through filling out the forms/background check(so I'm not 110% familiar with the process), so any advice would be appreciated on which way to fill that out in regards to this, as well as possibly needing to change method of payment.
Thank you in advance.