I was talking to a salesman at a popular gun store around here about this, and he also said a lot of women first time gun buyers come in and insist on buying AR-15s, despite the salesman's urgings to buy something simpler to operate, being first time gun owners. They tell him that they will learn how to operate them. But, come to think of it, that does sound like something a woman might do and say if she were buying a gun for a man who was prohibited from buying/owning one.
