Austin, TX - Gun Dealer Gets Prison for Selling to Illegal Immigrant

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Gun Dealer Gets Prison for Selling to Illegal Immigrant; Illegal 'Middle Man' Not Charged

By Diane Macedo
Published September 10, 2010

Gun rights advocates are up in arms that a Texas gun dealer was sentenced to six months in prison for selling a firearm to an illegal immigrant, but a "middle-man" who bought the gun for the immigrant -- and who was in the U.S. illegally himself, but had a valid driver's license -- was never arrested, charged or deported in the case.

Paul Copeland, 56, a Vietnam veteran, was sentenced to prison time and two years probation in federal court last week for selling a gun to an undocumented alien, Hipolito Aviles, at the Texas Gun Show in Austin in January.

But Aviles wasn't the man who handed Copeland the money for the gun. That man was Leonel Huerta Sr., who presented as identification the valid Texas driver's license he had obtained before his visa expired in 2007.

To read the rest of the story click the link below.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/09/09/texas-gun-dealer-gets-prison-sentence-selling-gun-illegal-immigrant-id-illegal/

Steve

[Penguin]

Well asuming he did the back ground check and didn't know it was a straw purchase that is just messed up. He did everthing right on his end. How are you supposed to see where the gun will end up after it goes out your door? Are gun dealers supposed to be physicic or what?

[blobman]

i agree a background check would have covered his ass,to a degree,could the "strawman" purchase the gun legally?that woulda nipped the thing in the bud.a "strawmans" purchase could still be charged,because of the passing of the weapon between the 2 illegals ,but you could fight that in court