her relationship with the dead suspect in the tom clements murder is as of yet unknown. what she has been arrested for or charged with is getting him the gun. remember, he was only released from prison in january. he is a convicted felon. convicted felons are not legally allowed to get guns. that's what background checks are for and the root of the argument why background checks should apply to all gun sales so convicted felons will be blocked by the background check system no matter where they try to buy themselves a gun. in this case it is alleged the suspect, ebel, the way he got around the background check problem he could not pass it because he is a felon, the way he got around the problem he got her to buy the gun because she could pass the background check and then once she had the gun she passed it on to him. if that is what happened and what is alleged by this arrest, what happened there is called a straw purchase. a straw purchase is illegal.