A 25-year-old woman has been sentenced to up to four years in prison for lying on firearm transaction documents when she bought guns used by a man to kill two New York volunteer firefighters on Christmas Eve 2012.
New York woman linked to firefighter deaths sent to prison for buying guns used in shooting | Fox News
Evidently he was a prohibited person (felon) and she made a straw purchase. Instead of facing federal charges and time, the state convicted her of the equivalent of a fraud charge.
For all the rhetoric and laws, when they have something they can actually prosecute, they don't. <sigh>