Philly Straw Buyer Sentenced Up to 25 Years or More

I believe that gun laws are unconstitutional. However, the Supreme Court seems to disagree, so if we’re going to have any laws on the books, I want them as minimal as possible. Part of the way we keep that is by pushing for the laws that exist to be properly enforced before anyone starts saying we need more regulations.

And one of those rules is that straw buys are illegal. You can’t buy a gun for someone who can’t lawfully own one in the first place, and far too many people do it. That’s not the primary way criminals get guns, mind you, but it’s still a way.

The best thing we can do is make the penalties for straw buys so high that few would risk it, and we don’t really need laws for that. We just need judges who are willing to follow through.

Case in point:

A Delaware County man who admitted to illegally purchasing guns later used in violent crimes in Philadelphia has been sentenced to a lengthy prison term, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

What we know:

Tahir Zahir, 30, of Sharon Hill, was sentenced by Judge Stephen A. Corr to 12 to 25 years in state prison, followed by two years of probation.

Zahir pleaded guilty in August to multiple felony charges, including:

• Dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities
• Making false statements on firearm purchase forms
• Unlawful sales of firearms
• Sales to an ineligible transferee
• Firearm ownership – duty of other persons
• Criminal conspiracy

Prosecutors say Zahir acted as a straw purchaser, buying firearms for individuals who were legally prohibited from owning guns.

The investigation revealed that Zahir bought 14 firearms between Aug. 2018 and June 2023 from stores in Bucks, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. Those purchases included six purchases from Auger Precision Firearms in Croydon and one from The Bunker Gun Shop II in Chalfont, according to the release.

I don’t like the inclusion of the gun stores, since it’s entirely likely they had no clue what was going on and were victims of Zahir’s actions as well.

Still, 14 guns were illegally purchased, then handed off to criminals who injured or killed others with them. Now he’s looking at 12 years in prison on the low end, though with parole, he probably won’t do all of that.

Look, straw buyers screw things up for the rest of us. Those 14 guns were used in crimes that are then used to justify gun control. Even if no one was hurt with them, that would be enough for me to want to see people like this thrown under the prison. As it is, who knows how many innocent lives were destroyed because he decided to make a little money buying guns for gang-bangers?

I have no sympathy for him, and I hope he gets the full 25 years with no parole at all.

No, he didn’t pull the trigger. That responsibility still lies with those who did.

But he knew he was breaking the law and doing so to facilitate criminals having guns. These are people who aren’t law-abiding folks as a general rule, so he knew what the likely outcome was. He should pay for it.

Especially because of what the rest of us have to endure from anti-gunners because of people like him.

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