See, the gun dealer is supposed to assign someone to the purchaser and the weapon to ensure that it is not illegally passed on to a third party.
Here in VA one of the specific questions on the form is 'are you purchasing this item for another party?'. What more are dealers supposed to do? If NY didn't have unconstitutional gun restrictions, they wouldn't have all those 'illegal' guns on the streets.
Exactly. It's not like someone making a straw purchase isn't going to LIE about it.
I bought a shotgun last week. One of the questions on the form was whether I'm in the country illegally. Like an illegal would answer the question honestly. The dealer and I both got a laugh out of that.