Wisconsin Felon Admits To Enlisting Girlfriend To Make Straw Buys

By Tom Knighton

While anti-gunners are convinced we have way too many guns on our streets, the truth of the matter is that the system for keeping new guns out of the hands of bad guys works about as well as it possibly can. We know it does because so few guns are actually obtained new from gun stores.

However, a handful are. Occasionally, you can chalk it up to a crooked dealer, but not always. In fact, that’s actually fairly rare.

Instead, the crooks simply go around the system, usually with a straw buyer, like this Wisconsin felon did.

A felon from Wisconsin has admitted in court that he told his girlfriend to buy five guns that were turned over to an ex-convict in Minneapolis.

Michael P. Coupe, 27, of Hayward, pleaded guilty last week in U.S. District Court in St. Paul to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Coupe is in federal custody in the Anoka County jail awaiting sentencing.

According to prosecutors, Coupe directed co-defendant Jamie Fleming, 31, of Hayward, to buy four pistols and a rifle last year and falsely state on the federal forms that she was buying them for herself.

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Source:: Bearing Arms