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EEllis wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:

rotor wrote:When you sign a government form swearing to something and you are in fact lying it doesn't matter what the intent is... they got you. It is a felony to not tell the truth apparently. Is there any question about whether the individual lied when he signed the form?

But.. lying on a form (perjury) would be a different violation and thus different penalty than a violation of gun control law...

Well truthfully he was charged with two offences and one of them had to do with giving bad info on the required forms. Strangely enough tho is that in some states they could not charge him with a crime depending on what federal district he was in. What matters is not if he lied but is that lie material. If you lied about something that makes no difference in buying a firearm, and I can't think of what questions are on the forms right now to come up with an example, like if they BATF started asking what your height was and you filled it out wrong, it would not be criminal. That is basicly what they did with this question because legally even you you put no as to you being the purchaser there is no law that prevents you buying that gun.