What are large-volume gun sales?
A. Large-volume guns sales are sales of multiple handguns to a single buyer in a short period of time. Currently, federal law does not limit the number of firearms that a person can buy in one transaction. A few states restrict the number of firearms that a person can buy. Gun traffickers, often using a “straw buyer” (a person who has a clean record and can pass the required Brady Law background check) take advantage of this loophole in federal law by buying large numbers of guns, usually handguns, from gun dealers and reselling them on the street to criminals. Q. Why are large-volume sales a problem? A. Large volume sales are a problem because they make it easy for traffickers to turn a profit selling guns to dangerous people like felons and domestic abusers. People buy guns in bulk at retail, and then sell them for profit in the illegal market. Limiting bulk sales helps take the profit out of gun trafficking and makes it easier to catch gun traffickers because they have to make more
