Abramski v. United States, 573 U.S. ___ (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case in which a former police officer from Virginia bought and transferred a gun to his uncle, while falsely declaring that he is purchasing the gun for himself. The Court held that such conduct violates the Gun Control Act of 1968. Specifically, the Court held that the purchase violated 18 U.S.C. §922(a)(6), which makes it unlawful to falsify facts "material to the lawfulness of the sale,” and 18 U.S.C. §924(a)(1)(A), which prohibits misrepresentation with respect to information which a firearms dealer is required to maintain in record. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the declaration about the ultimate recipient of the gun was not material to the sale, and that it is not included