Alabama law officials are cracking down on guns purchased illegally.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama tellsthat they’ve prosecuted more 30 cases of straw purchasing just this year. Straw purchasing is where someone legally buys a gun and then gives it to someone else who isn’t legally allowed to have it. But, straw purchasing in Alabama is contributing to gun crime locally and across the country.
“They’ll go into a gun shop and they’ll purchase it with the intent to hand it off to another individual,” U.S. Attorney’s for the Northern District of Alabama Prim Escalona said. “That is because it is relatively easy and cheap to purchase a gun in Alabama.”“Guns that are purchased in Alabama are sent up the east coast and crimes are committed as far as New York, Massachusetts, in Chicago with guns that are purchased here.
“Often people think it’s not that big of a deal to go purchase a gun for someone but it is,” Escalona said. “It’s a federal crime, it’s a felony, and we will prosecute it. They carry a sentence of up to 10 years, but we are seeing sentencing around 15 to 18 months sentencing.”
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