trafficking involve straw purchasers when straw purchasers do get caught like in the case of stevie marie vigil the penalties for legally purchased and gun and then giving or selling it to someone else are extremely weak speaking about the clements murder case brad beyers door spokesman for the a.t.f. denver field office told the denver post that there's a look there's little to no punishment for being a straw purchaser gang members know what drug trafficking organizations know it so how do we fix this major loophole and stop the epidemic of straw purchasing firearms first of all we need to strengthen the laws against being a straw purchaser a one way to do that is to start treating guns like cars had stevie marie vigil purchased a cheap used car for a fourteen year old boy and given him the keys and that boy had proceeded to run down and kill someone vidual would be facing an automatic charge of manslaughter or accessory to manslaughter in almost every state it's just common sense yet there are no serious laws against putting a gun in the hand of another person even if they use that gun to kil