Posted on 11/16/2018 2:35:12 PM PST by Simon Green
Here’s a Friday hypothetical for you: Let’s say you purchase something that costs $50,000. Not a car or a boat or anything sizable like that, but rather something that’s portable. A nice piece of jewelry, perhaps. What’s the first thing you do with it when you’re not using it? You lock it up, right?
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside did not lock it up, and it wasn’t a $50,000 piece of jewelry. Rather, he had a just-purchased Colt M16 assault rifle stolen from his unlocked Rolls-Royce in July.
Andy Slater of 640 AM in Miami has the scoop after reviewing the police report. On July 5, Whiteside purchased the rifle, ammunition, a rifle bag and a silencer at a Miami gun shop and then went for a workout at the University of Miami, leaving his Rolls unlocked. But the next day at home, he noticed that the weapon and the rifle bag were missing and called the police, thinking it had been stolen at the workout. But a review of security footage ruled that out, and then Whiteside remembered that he also had left his car unlocked at the gun store with the rifle inside. Going off that, police determined that the firearm had been stolen there after Whiteside went back inside the store for a moment.
On July 23, Slater reports, police recovered the rifle and the silencer in a stolen vehicle in North Miami.
“I have a license for the gun that was stolen from me over the summer,” Whiteside said Thursday in a team-issued statement, per the Miami Herald. “I should have secured it better and I’m glad it was recovered. It won’t happen again. It is now locked in a safe and I only use it at the gun range.”
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Why the high price? What features does one get in the $50K price range?
While we’re rolling on the subject, the difference between semi automatic, automic and assult weapon might be explained here.
I’ve fired an M4, a SCAR, a Glock and a rifle, the name of which I forget.
Couldn’t tell you which was which, though.
Yep,they got it right.An M-16 is select fire so it really is an assault rifle.The price on these weapons has really gone crazy in the last few years.I paid 1600 bucks for my M16A1 back in 1992.I think I should have bought another dozen or so.
I’m assuming it was an automatic, legally transferable pre-ban assault rifle (a real assault rifle, not something like an AR15 or 10/22 that the media calls an assault rifle).
The store owner watched him pull up in his Rolls and recognized him on the security cameras and he got the NBA players special pricing.
Was wondering what used to cost just over a grand for a factory new M16 x costs now...
Diamond studded trigger, gold plated receiver?
By not securing his weapon and paying 50k for it, he should be prevented from owning owning any firearms.
Maybe it was gold plated. You know like the one in the movie “Lord Of War”.
1500 for the rifle
43500 for the giggle switch
I may be mistaken, but the only difference is in one part of the trigger group and the stamping around the selector.
The rest is a punitive "Idiot Tax" (or perfect capitalism, if ya wanna put on a positive spin!).
And he didn't just go in, pay for it and walk out. There was a process. A looooonnggg process.
This crap is tiring but their stupid is very strong. d:^)
How many hungry Black children would that feed?
Something very fishy here.
No one walks into a gun store and comes out with a select- fire weapon AND suppressor, I don't care how much money they went in with.
They would be told, "Thank you for your money, we'll call you in a year when the paperwork comes through, and you can come back for your purchase."
Probably not as many as he himself has.
Maybe they took his money a year ago and this was the call.
Could also be he has an axe to grind and actually WANTS his readers to recoil at the thought that someone could go into a gun store and walk out with those items.
Either he's a poor writer and stupid, or a liar - and stupid.
If he’s got the license and can afford it more power to him. What kind of a background check do you encounter in the process of getting that license? Maybe he thought no one would notice his Rolls so why lock it?
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