The Anti’s need nothing more than “Blah Blah sold a gun blah blah” to smear you as anti-science and a white supremacist. The fact that no one on MDS even suggested forgoing a background check will be completely ignored by them.
When you suggest letting the wife be the buyer, you are basically forgoing a background check. It’s funny how folks agonize over what kind of fore grip is legal on an AR pistol, but when a potential buyer tries to arrange a classic straw purchase it suddenly becomes the FFLs problem.