Christmas gift for the wife

[oldgraygeek]

No, I own the firearm. She can carry it because she lives with me, and she has a CCDW permit.

Good question, though.

[Radnor]

I am sure this will be taken the wrong way but am I the only one who sees this as an admission to making a straw purchase?

No, a gift.  I believe between family members it's ok (unless prohibited person).

When I can no longer shoot and pass mine on to my son & grandson....

[Radnor]

... and she didn't immediately shoot me with it! 

So, you are implying a little time went by, and then???

[oldgraygeek]

... and she didn't immediately shoot me with it! 

So, you are implying a little time went by, and then???

And then she loaded it and put it in her purse, and we went to the mall for after-Christmas shopping.

 

[Hawkeye]

I am sure this will be taken the wrong way but am I the only one who sees this as an admission to making a straw purchase?

To answer my own questions, no. Now that I looked it up this is indeed a legal purchase. 

According to the ATF's own Federal Firearms Reference Guide, 2005:

Where a person purchases a firearm with the intent of making a gift of the
firearm to another person, the person making the purchase is indeed the true
purchaser. There is no straw purchaser in these instances. In the above example,
if Mr. Jones had bought a firearm with his own money to give to Mr. Smith
as a birthday present, Mr. Jones could lawfully have completed Form 4473.

http://www.atf.gov/publications/download/p/atf-p-5300-4.pdf