Two warrantless ATF agents and a state trooper visited a Delaware gun owner on July 12 and asked to see his recently bought guns. They told the man the home visit was part of a straw purchase investigation.
Straw purchases are a federal crime where a person buys a firearm or firearms for another person who cannot legally buy firearms themselves. The crime is punishable by up to $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison.
The entire interaction was recorded on the gun owner’s doorbell camera.
Lee Williams, the chief editor of the investigative reporting project at the Second Amendment Foundation, first broke the story….