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D.C. man orders TV, receives assault rifle

georg jetson

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If he woulda kept his mouth shut, I think he would have had a great deal.

Quad Rail, Flip up IS, Maybe a Vltor or Magpul stock, no paperwork... very nice deal for a 39 inch Westinghouse.
 

sudden valley gunner

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UPS does not hire based on ability to THINK!

They hire based on willingness to injure yourself and only do what you are told.

Put this label on that box. Okay.....

Yet they have a fairly good track record.

I have had employees that are just plain.....well.....dumb...but often times they are useful. Better them making a few bucks doing what they are told then living off tax payer dollars.
 

markand

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Feds are going to be all over whoever put the wrong label on the box. I wouldn't want to be that person. Guessing its the shipping company since the packing slip inside the box is apparently correct. That said, with all the people who might have handled that box during shipping, it might be impossible to figure out how the wrong label got on there.
 
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VW_Factor

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Amazon doesn't sell weapons... So obviously the ordering of a TV was simply coincidence.

Fault here lies with whoever shipped it by the information given.

Who would even think shipping a rifle like that to D.C. would be ok.
 

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If He lived in the "Good Washington" here on the west coast he could've kept it probably.... well no becuase it would then be a stolen firearm since someone else owned it. cue the Brady Bunch saying this is time to close "the gun show loophole"
 

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The guy receiving the God Given right, I' mean is that a sign the be upheld in the supreme court or what!

Anyway:
The box had two mailing labels: one with his name and address, the other for a Pennsylvania gun store that had ordered it from a supplier.

The guy is a dink for calling the cops! I'm sure with the other label he could have contacted the gun dealer, first, to see if there's any way they could retrieve them, first. What do you bet the gun dealer will never see those guns, or the cash returned that someone spent on them?


He sounds like a programmed DCBOT!
 

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Am I the only person who finds this story a bit suspicious? On the heels of two mass shootings, an innocent man living in our nations capital who just wanted a new TV mistakenly receives a terrifying looking "assault weapon" that is conveniently banned in his city. The news media trumpet's the headlines and people shake their collective heads in disgust that such dangerous weapons are just lying around. I mean, what if a child or a criminal had ordered that TV instead? :eek:
 

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I forgot this part:
received a military-style assault rifle instead.

I thought the Military defined assault rifle as Full Auto, is this SIG FA? Or just another media intentional misrepresentation.
 

EMNofSeattle

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I forgot this part:

I thought the Military defined assault rifle as Full Auto, is this SIG FA? Or just another media intentional misrepresentation.

Assault rifle's are by definition full auto. Now the correct term for a semi auto weapon intended for military use is Battle Rifle but don't tell that to the anti-gunners!

a military style weapon can be semi, for instance the British Army before going to the L-86 used a semi-auto FN FAL as their standard infantry rifle (becuase the 7.62 NATO full auto FAL kicked far too much to control on FA) so technically the term military style Battle Rifle would be correct terminology.

Personally I just use the term rifle, when people ask me what I think about "Assault weapons" and the need to control them, I politely inform them that using a Weapon in the commission of an Assault is already banned. That always gets me this dumbfounded look from anti gunners :cool:
 

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EMNofSeattle said:
cue the Brady Bunch saying this is time to close "the gun show loophole"
I thought this was the UPS loophole?
But I agree that the guy should at the very least have contacted the intended recipient, if not just kept his mouth shut.
Calling the police? Displaying it at a party? Seriously??
What a moron.
 

EMNofSeattle

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I thought this was the UPS loophole?
But I agree that the guy should at the very least have contacted the intended recipient, if not just kept his mouth shut.
Calling the police? Displaying it at a party? Seriously??
What a moron.

It was actually a joke based on how the anti gunners yell about " the gun show loophole" everytime a gun is used in a major crime regardless of where the gun came from
 
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