{"id":211066,"date":"2025-09-08T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T20:52:09","slug":"new-philly-gun-store-signs-warn-against-buying-a-gun-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/211066\/","title":{"rendered":"New Philly gun store signs warn against buying a gun for others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Buying a gun for someone who is not allowed to have one is a crime often referred to as a \u201cstraw purchase.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia gun stores will now have to post signs warning customers of that fact under a new ordinance signed into law by Mayor Cherelle Parker on Monday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>Parker called it a matter of reinforcing common sense.\n  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time that a purchaser misrepresents who the weapon is being purchased for or who it\u2019s going to be transferred to, they will be breaking the law,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said many people accused of making a straw purchase claim they were unaware that it was illegal to buy a weapon for someone prohibited from having one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing we have to think about is that young person, particularly, in many cases, women are sitting and locked up in a cell block and say, \u2018Well, I wish somebody had just told me I couldn\u2019t do that, because I didn\u2019t know,\u2019\u201d Bethel said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight of out 10 straw purchases are made by women, often young women, who are walking into the store procuring these weapons for someone who knows they can\u2019t have it,\u201d said Adam Geer, the city\u2019s public safety director.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":211067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,115661,1448,2830,1311,20788,115662,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-211066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gun-violence-prevention","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-phillys-100th-mayor","14":"tag-straw-purchases","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115170662698738798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}