Senate Bill Contains Gun Controls with Nothing to Do With Uvalde, Buffalo

The Senate’s bipartisan gun control bill contains heightened penalties for firearm trafficking and straw purchases, although trafficked or straw purchased firearms were not used in Uvalde, Buffalo, Parkland, Las Vegas, or Orlando, among others.

Sections 932 and 033 contain the heightened straw purchase and gun trafficking penalties.

The straw purchase section (932)v says:

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly purchase, or conspire to purchase, any firearm in or otherwise affecting interstate or foreign commerce for, on behalf of, or at the request or demand of any other person, knowing or having possible cause to believe that such other person” is prohibited from making the purchase for themselves.