I ran into a situation that seems to indicate otherwise. An ATF agent is a highly knowledgeable source, but I had a different experience.
I took my wife to get a 22 revolver at the biggest gun store in the Pittsburgh area, a place that does a lot of business. When they saw that her driver's license had expired (by a week), they would not accept it as ID for the purchase. When I asked if I could buy it for her, the guy there became very upset and said that straw purchases were illegal, and that he was unwilling to lose his FFL for me, and that he would not sell me a firearm that day unde