# Form 4473 *Firearms transaction form answered at licensed dealers; in the Minnesota record, the form in five Dakota County straw purchases.* In the Minnesota record, **Form 4473** is the form answered at a licensed firearms dealer, together with a background check, in five straw purchases. The project's Dakota claims matrix states that each of the five required a Form 4473 answered falsely, at a licensed dealer, with the background check run on the wrong person.[^1] The same entry sets two instruments side by side. A court order barring a man named in the record as Gooden existed in Dakota County, and the five transactions cleared in that same county. The matrix finds no connection between the two instruments.[^1] Fox 9 reported that Gooden's petition to have his firearm rights restored was denied in 2020.[^2] The record does not establish why the court order and the transactions were not connected. It also does not name the office or administration responsible for either instrument, and this article does not infer one. The entry is anchored to a March 2025 presidential action on eliminating information silos between government systems.[^3] Against that stated federal aim, the documented output in this record is a Dakota County court order and five transactions in the same county that the two systems did not connect.[^1] ## What The matrix describes each of the five purchases as a straw purchase. In each one, a Form 4473 was answered falsely at a licensed dealer.[^1] ## Where The court order barring Gooden existed in Dakota County, and the transactions cleared in the same county.[^1] A Fox 9 report on the [[Burnsville]] case gives a count of 27 Dakota County petitions as of February 2024, alongside the 2020 denial of Gooden's request to restore his firearm rights. That report is a news account of a court holding.[^2] ## How According to the matrix, the background check in each transaction was run on the wrong person, and the Form 4473 was answered falsely.[^1] ## How many The matrix counts five straw purchases.[^1] Fox 9 reported 27 petitions in Dakota County as of February 2024.[^2] ## In the at-issue record The pair is catalogued as item AI-Dakota-032 in the Dakota package and is tagged *two-instruments-no-link* and *silo*. It rests on two listed sources, one agency source (atf.gov) and one news source (fox9.com).[^1] Its anchor is the White House action *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025).[^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki, Dakota package, *Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix* (2026-09-02), at-issue item AI-Dakota-032. This entry establishes the five straw purchases, the falsely answered Form 4473s, the background checks run on the wrong person, the Dakota County court order barring Gooden, and the absence of a connection between the two instruments. The entry lists atf.gov and fox9.com as its sources. [^2]: Fox 9, *Burnsville gunman wanted his firearm rights restored; this is why the system blocked him*. This report establishes the 2020 denial of Gooden's firearm-rights restoration (court holding, as reported) and the Dakota County count of 27 petitions as of February 2024. https://www.fox9.com/news/burnsville-gunman-wanted-his-firearm-rights-restored-this-is-why-the-system-blocked-him [^3]: The White House, *Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos* (March 2025). This presidential action is the anchor of at-issue item AI-Dakota-032. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/