Opinion ID: 738578
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Yeah, for the gun.

Text: 19 Q. What? For the gun? 20 A. Yeah, and Bob's mom said she didn't want to do it because she didn't want her name on the papers and he could hurt somebody and she didn't think he needed a gun. But Bob has a way of talking people into things, and so he kind of threw a tantrum and got all mad, and finally his mom said that she would do it. 21 Q. Said she would do what? 22 A. Pawn the CD Player. 23 Q. Did she say she would pawn the CD player for the gun, or just pawn the CD player? 24 A. Just pawn the CD player and he would have to figure out a different way of getting the gun because she didn't want her name on the papers. 25 Q. That's what he told her; is that correct? He would have to get someone else to get the gun? 26 A. Yeah. 27 (emphasis added). 28 Mrs. Moore then pawned Bobby's CD player and gave him the cash she received from the transaction. She did so knowing that he intended to use it to purchase a firearm. 29 The next day, Bobby went looking for someone else to help him acquire the weapon, as suggested by his mother. He took the cash to Wiley's residence to see if Wiley would assist him. The neighborhood knew Wiley as Grandpa, and he frequently did favors for the neighborhood children. The record reflects that Wiley is a man of limited intelligence. Wiley was neither Bobby's parent nor guardian, nor was he related to him in any respect whatsoever. 30 Wiley balked at first, but Bobby persisted; and with the promise of money as a sweetener, Wiley relented and agreed to purchase the gun on Bobby's behalf. 31 Mrs. Moore then drove Wiley, Bobby, and Jason to the pawnshop. During this trip, Wiley asked Mrs. Moore if the purchase of the gun was all right with her, to which she replied that it was fine. 32 When the group arrived at the pawnshop, Mrs. Moore waited in the car while Wiley, Bobby, and Jason went inside. Wiley asked the clerk to see the handgun Bobby had spotted on his earlier visit. Because the two boys were present, the clerk inquired for whom Wiley wanted to purchase the gun. Wiley responded that the gun was for Bobby, but that he Wiley was Bobby's grandfather, and that he was going to hold it for Bobby until Bobby was 21 years of age. Both of these statements were false and were intended to facilitate the transaction. On cross-examination, Wiley conceded that the only reason he was in the pawnshop was to stand in for Bobby to get that gun. 33 The clerk responded to Wiley's representations with an inquiry about Bobby's parents and whether they knew about this purchase. Bobby said that his mother was outside, and he went to get her. In short order, Mrs. Moore appeared briefly in the doorway and, without prompting by Wiley, said to the clerk, His grandfather is buying a gun for him. He's going to hold it until he's 21, and everything is fine with me. 34 Satisfied by Mrs. Moore's representations, the clerk had Wiley sign BATF Form 4473 as the transferee (buyer), accepted the cash Bobby had given to Wiley for the transaction, and turned the gun over to Wiley. Back in the car, and contrary to the intentions he expressed to the clerk, Wiley gave the gun to Mrs. Moore, expecting that it would go to Bobby. As Bobby intended from the start, he then took the firearm as his own possession. 35 Mrs. Moore's reluctance to buy this weapon for her son and to put her name on the papers was well founded, and her worry about Bobby hurting someone with it was prescient. On January 20, 1994, Bobby used it to shoot Ronald Wade Feldner, a New Plymouth, Idaho police officer, in the face. Officer Feldner died, leaving behind a wife and minor children.