Man Orders TV from Amazon, Gets High Powered Assault Rifle Instead

www.ksee24.com ^ | 08/08/2012 | By KSEE News

[redreno]

All Seth Horvitz wanted was a Westinghouse 39-inch LED television. Instead, he got a high-caliber, semi-automatic assault rifle.

The Washington resident, who had ordered the television through a third-party vendor on Amazon.com, first realized that something wasn't quite right when a long, narrow box showed up at his apartment Tuesday, DCist reported.

[cripplecreek]

I keep buying Cracker Jack and hoping against hope....

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[rod1]

Did he get free supersaver shipping with that order

[Pearls Before Swine]

He didn’t know he got a good deal.

But he was “in” with his protest before the package trace.

[DCBryan1]

What is "high powered?"...what is a "high caliber"?!

Must be a belt-fed, multi=barrel, electric fired 30mm auto-cannon./sarc

[MeganC]

Hell, I need to order a TV!!!

[MileHi]

Instead, he got a high-caliber, semi-automatic assault rifle.

Wow! They sent him a Barrett .50 auto loader?

[Jonah Hex]

A Sig in 7.62 X 51 mm? I'd say he got the better part of the deal.

[soycd]

Thankfully they did not send him the Low Powered assault version.

[gaijin]

What is a “high calibre” assault rifle?

I want to know that. My guess is that they wrote that simply cuz it sexes the story up.

[DCBryan1]

Verdict:

Guy was a complete dumbass for making the report ;)

Enjoy!

Sig 716

[manc]

the same Amazon which gave 2.5 million to homosexuals and their agenda because of CFA. The same group which calls itse;f liberal?ARF

[Sir Napsalot]

Shhh just keep your mouth shut.... and insist you got the tv.

But the idijt blew it.

[umgud]

The package contained a Sig Sauer SIG716, a Swiss-made 7.6 pound, 37-inch-long assault semi-automatic rifle.

[dragonblustar]

Man Orders TV from Amazon, Gets High Powered Assault Rifle Instead

Lucky bastard.

[Drew68]

A Sig in 7.62 X 51 mm? I'd say he got the better part of the deal.

Yeah, I wanna think I'd have kept my mouth shut. But that's just me.

[a fool in paradise]

Thankfully they did not send him the Low Powered assault version.

Would the low powered assault rifle be greener?

[Uncle Ike]

Ah, the wonders of modern ‘journalism’...

“High Powered Assault Weapon” - as opposed to a “Low Powered Assault Weapon”??

And in the article, “High-caliber rifle” - the most common calibers for ‘assault rifles’ (especially the ‘high-powered’ ones) are 5.56mm (.223 cal), 7.62mm (.30cal) and 9mm (.38 cal) - none of which is considered a particularly ‘high caliber’....

Never let the facts get in the way of some good ol’ fashioned breathless propaganda....

[Future Snake Eater]

Lucky bastard...I can only afford low-powered assault rifles.

[JoeDetweiler]

They never seem to get these things right. That should be “High Powered Assault SNIPER Rifle....”

[SUSSA]

He should have kept the Sig. The SIG716 is a fine weapon.

[SunkenCiv]

I’d be furious, fast, if this had happened to me. Unless I was trying to snuff some cop in Juarez. Thanks redreno.

[Still Thinking]

Uh, and what was the make and model of the TV he ordered? Ahem. I want to make sure I don’t accidentally get any icky guns by accident, don’t ya know!

[I see my hands]

Must have been Chuck Connors.

[Pontiac]

Horvitz's name and address were on the mailing label. But inside the box, an invoice contained the address of a Pennsylvania gun shop.

"Items get mixed up sometimes, but never on this scale," Horvitz told DCist. "I didn't think I was getting into a gun/electronics dealer."

The poor gun dealer is going to be getting a visit from the BATF.

I am sure this Horvitz will be getting a visit as well and he will at the very least be spending a lot of uncompensated time talking to investigators and lawyers.

If he is smart he will soon have a lawyer of his own.

[.45 Long Colt]

Just imagine how disappointed you would be if you were expecting your new rifle and received a lousy television instead.

[tacticalogic]

If you order the 60 inch TV can you get a chain gun?

[Iron Munro]

What is "high powered?"...what is a "high caliber"?!

It was a SIG Sauer SIG716 (7.62 x 51mm) semi-automatic rifle. Similar to .308 caliber.

It's worth around $2,000. He should have considered himself fortunate - like a lottery winner.

FTA:

Seth Horvitz, who lives in the northeast quadrant of the US capital, said he contacted police immediately after a parcel delivery service left the military-style SIG Sauer SIG716 at his apartment door.

"They were a little confused at first. They've never seen anything quite like it," he told Fox 5, a local television station.

"They just took my information and then said: 'We'll handle this weapon because it's illegal to keep here.' It's illegal to transport in a car, so it can't be returned."

While the box was addressed to Horvitz, who had ordered a flat-screen television from a third-party retailer via Amazon.com, an invoice inside the box suggested the gun was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop.

A spokesman for Washington's Metropolitan Police Department told AFP on Wednesday that the case -- which comes on the heels of two mass killings in the United States in less than a month -- remains under investigation.

On its website, the US subsidiary of SIG Sauer, a major European firearms manufacturer that supplies guns to many US police forces, says the SIG716 is "the rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger caliber carbine."

[dfwgator]

He’ll shoot his eye out.

[Iron Munro]

It looks pretty big.

[bmwcyle]

What a deal that is because the TV is crap.

[MDspinboyredux]

Don’t even get me started on those “variable” power assault weapons. I can never figure out the settings on those things.

[MDspinboyredux]

Don’t even get me started on those “variable” power assault weapons. I can never figure out the settings on those things.

[circlecity]

Ring ring...Hello....yes it is....what SIG?

[rockvillem]

If you order the 60 inch TV can you get a chain gun?

LOL! Anyone else calling BS on this story? Just seems WAY too convenient to come out right after a couple of tragic shootings and it plays right into Obama's gun control/confiscation agenda. Pegs my BS meter.

[Last Dakotan]

Would the low powered assault rifle be greener?

No, just more tolerant...

[njslim]

How come sh*t like this nevers happens to me....

Order books from Amazon

All I get are books......

I fell cheated....!

[DCBryan1]

Thanks. I guess you missed my /sarc ;)

[DCBryan1]

Thanks. I guess you missed my /sarc ;)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Some guys have all the luck.

[Argus]

So THAT’s where the high-powered assault rifle I ordered is.

[Axenolith]

If the rifle was “illegal to keep” and “illegal to transport” in DC then I’d figure it was either a select fire or the cop realized he had a kick ass new gun...

[rawcatslyentist]

>"If you order the 60 inch TV can you get a chain gun?"

LOL!

[familyop]

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A high caliber would produce too much recoil for most folks in a semi-automatic self-defense weapon. Maybe it's a good rifle for hunting or defense against larger predators.

[mongo141]

Why does this sh!t never happen to me (Like I need another damn rifle). ;^)

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Horvitz’s name and address were on the mailing label. But inside the box, an invoice contained the address of a Pennsylvania gun shop.

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Meanwhile, a gun dealer in PA asked his staff, “Which one of you morons ordered us a TV?

[HiTech RedNeck]

And the poor chap who paid for the gun got a television set!

[Gasshog]

all your SIG are belong to us.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Since Amazon doesn’t sell artillery, this seller must have been doing the gun business on the side. Anyhow the wrong label got stuck on the box. In a sane country they’d just send him postage to return it and that would be that. Instead they treat these silly guns (which sans ammo cannot shoot any more than your little boy’s finger can) like nuclear hazardous waste.

[mylife]

I got this by mistake.

http://www.hkpro.com/forum/hk-long-gun-talk/72549-h-k-22-cal-g3-conversion-kit.html