Posted on 07/12/2016 4:14:45 PM PDT by Mariner
Micah Johnson never balked at the $600 asking price for an AK-47 assault rifle. The buy was arranged via Facebook, and consummated in the parking lot of a Target.
Seller Colton Crews forgot about the deal until last week, when ex-Army reservist Johnson killed five Dallas police officers — and federal investigators tracked Crews down.
“I don’t even know how I feel about it right now,” Crews told the Daily News. “I have no idea. It’s awful. It’s just bad.”
Crews, 26, said there was no inkling during their 15-minute November 2014 transaction that Johnson was anything except a military veteran and a solid citizen.
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And, he could have purchased either rifle at any gun store in TX as he had no priors.
The REASON he had no priors is because the US Army gave him an Honorable Discharge instead of Courts Martial for stealing the panties of a female Sargent.
Universal background checks will only work if there's universal registration...and we all know how that ends up.
Misguided youth: If only it weren’t so hard to buy a book or a computer
Both the 1934 Automatic Weapons Ban and the 1968 Gun Control Act were violated.
how so?
The officers’ loved one should sue FB for providing support for a terrorist.
Ban Facebook
...how so?....
Beats me too...
“killing machine” There’s a new one.
How so? No automatic weapons were sold and no background check on a private sale is required in Texas.
No laws were broken that I can see in the entire transaction.
Obviously, Facebook should be immediately banned as a terrorist supply network!
The AK-47 is a fully automatic weapon. Banned by the 1934 Automatic Weapons Act.
and no background check on a private sale is required in Texas.
Illegal to purchase guns through the mail, which extends over the internet. 1968 Gun Control Act violated.
“Both the 1934 Automatic Weapons Ban and the 1968 Gun Control Act were violated.”
Nope, not at all.
Just an ordinary semi-auto rifle sold in-state between residents.
Totally legal.
Assuming that it was an AK-47 actually being discussed here. $600 would be an incredible deal.
I thought it was an SKS, not an AK-47. I know, I know, the SKS is just an AK-47 knock-off, but the SKS is cheaper by a long shot.
Don’t know about how easy it is to modify versus a proper AK, however. It might be that some elbow grease with a pair of pliers could turn a semi-automatic to an automatic fairly easily.
I vaguely remember SKS’s having flaws that made it shoot short bursts accidentally, maybe a tweak to the flaw could make it spew rounds like a water hose.
I thought he used a single action rifle.
Someone help.
AK-47 also refers to the semi-auto civilian version, which is what is meant.
Select fire version would likely cost over $10K, and isn’t illegal, anyway.
You can buy guns through the mail or the interweb. As long as you pick it up at an FFL dealer and fill out the ATF 4473 form and wander around while they place the call and wonder what else you can buy without winding up in the doghouse, then pays your money and a small fee.
Not all AK-47s are fully automatic. Most are semi-annual. They can only be fired during odd-numbered years or on days ending with the letter `Y’.
I’ve bought and sold guns privately online through websites such as armslist.com, and have never thought twice about it. To me, it’s the same as selling a car. The car could be used, intentionally, to kill or maim people just as easily as a gun can. I do prefer to only deal with people that hold a CHL/LTC, but I don’t have to. If I had sold to this guy would I have felt absolutely devastated about it now, yes, of course. But that doesn’t lay any blame at my feet for doing so. He could have easily gotten it from any other number of places. I say this as a person that had an uncle that was a police officer and was murdered in the line of duty here in the Dallas area several years ago.
Local dealer has them for 679.00 new.600 would seem about right for a good used one.I actually bought a new one in 2014 for 629.00 plus tax.
I had heard it was an SKS, which actually makes $600 sensible, even overpriced.
It turns out I was wrong. According to a gun-enthusiast site, it was a Saiga AK-74.
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