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Gun Control & RKBA

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Kang Colby

(1,941 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 07:58 PM Dec 2016

X-Post from Bansalot, corrected title: UPS delivers 5 shot, bolt action rifle to NY couple in error. [View all]

This article dang near qualifies as "fake news" for reasons I'll explain momentarily. Let's start with the original:


A New York couple was horrified when a UPS delivery that they thought was a Christmas present turned out to be an assault rifle.

Newsday reports that Joel Berman opened the keyboard-sized case in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter Wednesday night in Oceanside, on Long Island.

Instead of a toy plane they were buying for their friend's son, they found a semi-automatic rifle, scope, stand, ammo clip and copies of an Arizona man's driver's license and concealed-weapons permit. They hustled their granddaughter out of the room and called police, who picked up the weapon.

http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/ups-delivers-assault-rifle-toy-christmas-gift-44238092

From reading that article, you'd think the gun was on the verge of climbing out of the case and chasing the family around the house.

The gun in question is a 5 shot, bolt action rifle, a Barrett M95. Thus this reporting dang near qualifies as fake news. But if you're a controller all rifles are assault rifles and all handguns are Glocks.
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Very true. Thanks for the clarification. However............ guillaumeb Dec 2016 #1
Actually there are a lot of one mile target clubs in Pennsylvania. Throck Dec 2016 #3
Yeah, the real news is worse than the fake news. HassleCat Dec 2016 #4
What do you think the caliber/cartridge cut off should be then? Kang Colby Dec 2016 #10
How about .34?? yagotme Dec 2016 #13
Exactly my point. Kang Colby Dec 2016 #14
What about the oneshooter Dec 2016 #15
Most people don't know what any of those are. Kang Colby Dec 2016 #16
Several years ago, yagotme Dec 2016 #17
He probably intends to use it for long-range target shooting, benEzra Jan 2017 #21
Regardless, I suspect someone at UPS is going to be unemployed for Christmas Lurks Often Dec 2016 #2
Probably a screw up. Kang Colby Dec 2016 #5
Barrett is located in TN, so it isn't a repair related return. Lurks Often Dec 2016 #6
A return to the customer. Kang Colby Dec 2016 #7
Damn. As soon as I saw this, I rushed to open the appropriately-shaped box petronius Dec 2016 #8
You would think they would check the signature on a Six thousand dollar package... mackdaddy Dec 2016 #9
What's being reported as a concealed weapons permit is probably a copy Kang Colby Dec 2016 #11
expensive novelty item...at least that's the reason ileus Dec 2016 #12
Is the ammo still around $4 per round? ManiacJoe Dec 2016 #18
I paid 34 or 39 bucks for 10 rounds ileus Dec 2016 #19
I have one signed by Ronnie Barrett SQUEE Dec 2016 #20
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