Posted on 10/08/2015 10:05:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
It’s not hard to get your hands on illegal guns and rifles in America. It took me about two hours. I called a guy from the old neighborhood in LA, said something about a “piece”, and, hours later, I was staring at an AK-47 and an illegally modified AR-15, which were sitting on a kitchen table. Welcome to America.
Admittedly, he was surprised at my interest in being strapped since it’s been a good minute since I was about the life, but when I explained I was simply curious to see how long it’d take for me to get a gat, he agreed to the idea. He had some handguns, too, he said, although I didn’t see ‘em. I took his word for it after seeing the AK-47 and AR-15, because those weapons leave an impression.
Some of the weapons were smuggled in, while others were bought on the up and up – waiting period and all. Moving them is not his thing; he collects, and, on occasion, heads out to the desert with others to shoot. If I needed something, we could talk to another homie and with a few hundred dollars out of pocket, I’d be set. I passed on the opportunity.
I didn’t expect my search to be so successful – especially since the black market usually requires some know-how, something I don’t have much of these days, since, well, I’ve done a complete 180, and I rarely spend anytime even associating with people running afoul of the law. But it was shockingly easy.
Looking at these highly dangerous weapons, I felt deeply disturbed – despite being a veteran and having served in Iraq. There’s something about seeing these weapons here in the US and not in a combat zone; it makes it all too unsettling, as
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If he bought and ILLEGAL weapon and publishes it....why hasn’t he been arrested?
get a “gat”
What did he know Capone ?
Two hours? Hell, it pretty much takes me less than 20 minutes to complete the transaction, unless the place is busy. I have a unique last name, shared with fewer than 20 people nation-wide. They don’t even need my SSN on the form.
So obviously making them all illegal will make them all hard to find and we'll finally be in a utopia.
What a azzwipe...
And what is the “illegally modified AR-15?” Maybe it doesn’t have a “bullet button” mag release as is required in CA.
I’m sure I could get a gun in Great Britain in a fairly short time, using the same method this putz likely used to get his AK47 here.
Boom! , +1, winner winner, etc.
I am way over 50 and have never used the term “gat”.
Proof more gun laws won’t work. Nice job, soldier.
Or a thumb hole in the stock.
That’s what I thought. He’s actually making our case - that you can pass laws five ways from Sunday and guns are still accessible. Does he think the 4,533rd law will be the one that works?
And I’m assuming this guy and his “friend” are in jail now, since this author is so concerned about illegal firearms in the U.S.
AK’s aren’t illegal..unless they are fully automatic, and he did not specify. He also didn’t say exactly what modification was made to the AR that was “illegal”. Was the barrel sawed off? Was a suppressor (aka silencer) added? Was it just an “Obama Sucks” bumper sticker put on the stock? Oh wait...that might not be illegal yet.
He doesn’t understand the Market. There is always a Market and it always outwits the State.
Eric Rodriguez bought the gun on the black market... he bought it from criminals.
IF IDIOT LIBERALS get the control laws they want, the billion dollar gun industry will be taken over by criminals, gang bangers, Mexican Cartels and the Mob.
AND that group doesn’t do back ground checks....
Do liberals want to give a billion dollar industry to criminals?
I think it’s possible.
So what? This loser probably has no idea how to use it.
Personally I prefer “mahaska”.
R.E.M.F. faggot.
He didn’t purchase.
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