Posted on 09/18/2017 1:15:35 PM PDT by Ancesthntr
In addition to the fact that Amazon.com is now the world’s largest marketplace of contaminated, untested dietary supplements and food, a Natural News investigation confirms that Amazon.com has rolled out a “gun-running” sting operation to get its own customers charged with felony crimes by the ATF.
Amazon.com, which has always prohibited the sale of firearms, has been openly selling a Glock-compatible full auto conversion device that turns a pistol into a fully automatic weapon. We are not linking to the purchase page for the simple reason that Amazon.com is running a trap, and we don’t want anyone to accidentally fall into that trap and end up spending 10 years in federal prison for buying this device from Amazon.
This device, for sale on Amazon.com for a mere $68 and described as an “Airsoft” accessory, is part of a sting operation where Amazon.com is attempting to entrap its own customers so that they can be raided by the ATF and charged with felony crimes for illegally possessing class-III (full auto) firearms conversion devices, which are strictly prohibited under federal law unless you complete an exhaustive application and approval process with the ATF.
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“We are not linking to the purchase page for the simple reason that Amazon.com is running a trap, and we don’t want anyone to accidentally fall into that trap and end up spending 10 years in federal prison for buying this device from Amazon.”
And then the article provides an image of the page showing the seller’s name and title of the purchase offer.
Or Ammonia Nitrate and Powdered Aluminum.
Anyone remember the APACHE version of a Thompson sold through gun magazines back in pre-1969 America?
Great looking Thompson knockoff till someone noticed you could press the safety and trigger at the same time and it would go rattatattt!.
Enter the BATF and confiscations. One was shown on the old POLICE STORY, TV show with Hugh O’Brian as a BATF or FBI agent.
Please do not attack other FR members.
Have you got a source for that? That is a very slippery slope.
Lighten up Francis.
There’s isn’t any.
Exactly. About all it would be good for is to run yourself out of ammo and become a sitting duck.
If that's the case, than there's a high likelihood that this was an ATF trap from the get-go.
That’s a really good series that I’ve discovered on Youtube.
I bought the CD.
A bit misleading - this item is not sold by, NOR shipped by Amazon. It is at 3rd Party seller - an outfit named “Military Base”.
Amazon does not extensively screen 3rd Party sellers unless there are complaints. Pretty much anyone can sign up to be a seller.
Now - is it possible the ATF would set up a sting sales account? Maybe. Though the item listing as an airlift accessory might make an attorney happy - as it could amount to entrapment.
Yes it is. Go to Calguns.net and search on constructive possession.
Why buy the part when you can just fashion one yourself with a drimel-style tool. Anyone with any google skills can conjure up the correct information (spirits). Even if the part was made with cheap pot-metal it would probably work for a single magazine. I would not want a full auto pistol - the way a pistol rises up would waste the ammo - better to single squeeze each round and adjust your fire.
I think you mean Constructive INTENT...but I’m still skeptical that merely possessing the conversion piece is the same as possessing the converted gun, without a source.
lol
What he says is true: Don’t even HAVE full auto parts. Like if you own the full auto or burst fire trigger group for an AR (Now M series). Just owning it will have the ATF locking you up and throwing away the key.
But this “sting” is utter legal nonsense. It says airsoft. So the buyer is no in trouble.
Also, you can’t just buy some parts and convert a Glock to full auto. They are totally different guns. They look similar, but they are nothing alike.
Sheesh I had to get down HOW MANY posts on FR before people pointed this out ?!
Looking at it is different from going to the page itself. Once you’ve done that in Amazon, if (for example) your teenage child has your password (lots of parents do this), then they could bring it up in “recent searches” and order it.
To make it simpler: it is like women (if you’re married to one or dating seriously) - you can look, but don’t touch.
If you take that words of the 2nd Amendment seriously and literally, then the entire 1934 NFA should be an interesting historical footnote - a law that was tossed out in the 1930s for being unconstitutional.
But the government doesn’t, and they have the resources to investigate us, find and detain us, put us on trial and jail us (or worse). So, while I agree with you on a theoretical basis, and fight to make theory into practice at every opportunity that I have, I have to sometimes bow to the practical. NFA items are one of those times - the fed.gov takes that stuff VERY seriously.
Again, I’m curious to know a source...i.e. an example of somebody being imprisoned for mere possession of said burst fire trigger group.
“I wonder how they reconcile selling threaded pipes and Ammonium 34-0-0”
With a kit that can make a gun into a full auto...yeah, they can sell that to a jury - and have, many times.
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