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Illegal Firearm Transferring
Police & Fire
Bucks Straw Purchaser Had Been Putting Guns On Streets For Years: DA
A Bucks County man had been making straw purchases of firearms before illegally reselling the guns on the streets for over a decade, authorities say. Frederick Cornelius Brown Jr., 63, of Croydon, was convicted in a Bucks County court on 34 counts of illegal firearm transferring and knowingly falsifying documents, said state Attorney General Michelle Henry in a release. As far back as 2011, Henry said Brown purchased as many as 17 guns which he then illegally transferred to others. Not a single one of the weapons had been reported missing, stolen, or legally transferred to anoth…