Texas family demands justice for son shot in his sleep after shooter gets 90-day sentence

Fort Worth Star-Telegram via yahoo ^ | July 31, 2023 | Nicole Lopez

[grundle]

A guy who was in his apartment shot and killed another guy in the neighboring apartment. The shooter says it was an accident. I say there's no such thing as an "accidental" shooting. This was negligence. 90 days is way too short. How about nitrogen asphyxiation?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“bullet hit Austin’s left arm and traveled through his chest, lungs, and all the way to his right arm”

Wow, what are the odds?

The shooter should be behind bars for many years.

[Mr. K]

Stupid should hurt. If his story checks out, that he’s just a novice with guns, then still... Involuntary manslaughter 10 years

[Lurker]

Where’s the ATF? Mere possession of one of those switches carries a five year prison sentence in a Federal penitentiary.

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[Cobra64]

There ARE people who should not be permitted to be anywhere near a firearm. They think they know it all, have no desire to learn how the weapon operates, no desire to take a safety and marksmanship class from a professional firearms instructor. Every member of our gun club is a NRA-Certified Range Safety Officer. The stuff I see at public ranges is scary. Typically a buncha yahoos in “tactical” came dress trying to impress their girlfriends or old guys who think they know it all, but refer to pistol magazines as “clips.”

[TexasGator]

Interesting sentence. Nine days each on victim’s birthday and on date of shooting for five years.

[TexasGator]

“The shooter should be behind bars for many years.”

He will have to go to jail 2x a year for 5 years.

[blackdog]

New meaning to "firewalls" in multi-unit housing. Last century a masonry wall was required between units. I think now all you need is 5/8" drywall and 2×4 draft stop blocks between studs. If they are deeded homes like condos or townhouses, they also require masonry adjoining walls.

Apartments these days you can just punch thru.

[blackdog]

He had Rob Biden (AKA Hunter) send in his forms.

[fwdude]

Who assembles an unfamiliar gun while it's loaded?

I really believe it was an accident, but it was caused by gross stupidity and carelessness. Yeah, he should do major time, but not a death sentence.

[Drew68]

Where’s the ATF? Mere possession of one of those switches carries a five year prison sentence in a Federal penitentiary.

Restorative justice. Soros prosecutors in the ‘hood have stopped enforcing the laws against Glocks with auto switches because too many black men like Gabriel Brown illegally possess them.

If a white guy has one, that’s five years in the pen.

[jeffersondem]

“Mere possession of one of those switches carries a five year prison sentence in a Federal penitentiary.”

Up to ten years. Plus up to $250,000 fine.

[Chewbarkah]

Exactly. But we need more laws to not enforce...
And where is the investigation into who sold this yahoo parts to convert a semi-auto into a fully automatic firearm? Doesn’t BATFE want to shut down a WMD pipeline fueling “block party” shoot-em-ups?

If the family of the murdered child desire justice, it will be a DYI project.

[arthurus]

Mishandling of a loaded gun. Possession of machine gun parts. Kills a guy. 90days? in Texas?

[RetiredTexasVet]

Tarrant County

Probably don’t want to visit Ft Worth, or Austin, or Houston, or Dallas...they don’t have prosecutors familiar with the law and generally just wing it.

[arthurus]

Machine gun parts is a FEDERAL crime. How does he skate on that?

[Lurker]

“How does he skate on that?”

Maybe he’s related to Hunter Biden somehow.

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[immadashell]

“I put the conversion kit on and I guess one got stuck in the head because I never pulled the trigger but it dislodged,”

The latest version of the Alec Baldwin murder defense.

[Wayne07]

99% chance the article is wrong, there was no full auto firearm involved, and was written by someone who knows nothing about guns.

The "micro conversion" is something like this:

Which will take your pistol and give it a brace, turning into something like a sub-machine gun. Not fully automatic.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I say there's no such thing as an "accidental" shooting. This was negligence. 90 days is way too short. How about nitrogen asphyxiation?

Agreed. I'm a Second Amendment absolutist. I also firmly believe that if you discharge your weapon, you're answerable for the outcome - "accidents" don't let you off the hook for an unjustified shooting.