BATFE would be all over any decent American who committed that "serious" felony. For special people - our ruling class - it's obvious that they have special rules. George Orwell was right.
Posted on 03/09/2018 9:37:03 AM PST by Simon Green
Local media is reporting that a Democrat vying for a seat in Congress has caught the eye of federal regulators over a rifle whose barrel she publicly shortened in a protest.
Police tell area media they now have the AR-15 that Karen Mallard, a candidate for Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District, on Wednesday seemingly shortened the barrel on while on Facebook Live. After the event, Mallard turned the gun over to the Virginia Beach Police Department, a spokesman of which said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is “looking into the situation.”
Mallard announced she was destroying her husband’s AR-15 in an act of solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in Parkland, Florida, protesting for gun control in the wake of a school shooting that claimed the lives of 17 people. Using a portable saw, she removed the front several inches of the rifle’s barrel and handguard, prefaced and followed with a diatribe on gun violence.
The video, which was first pulled by “a staffer” in Mallard’s campaign and then reposted, has been viewed over 1.4 million times, and drew significant backlash in the form of thousands of comments — most pointing out that the potential lawmaker may have violated federal law regulating the production and possession of short barreled rifles under the National Firearms Act, a felony. Threads referencing the incident on popular gun forums like AR-15.com and others soon crossed over to discussion boards such as Reddit and 4Chan, then became trending. Twitter lit up as did Instagram.
Mallard contends she did nothing wrong. Her campaign website cautioned “(A) few people raised concerns that the AR-15 wasn’t rendered operational and that Karen had merely made it a short-barrel rifle. David later took the disassembled weapon to the local police station to have it properly disposed of.”
In speaking with WTKR, she implied the stunt may have been a bait-and-switch of sorts. “I knew exactly what I was doing. The gun was inoperable before I cut it. And we took it completely apart. And we didn’t put all that on video because I wanted to get the message to the students that I was standing with them,” Mallard said
Now that would be funny if they busted her for possessing as short barrel rifle. But that’s probably stuff for Ruby Ridge I suppose. Wrist tap at most and admonishment to never do that again.
If that was my wife, she would soon be my ex.
Throw the b*tch in jail. Political candidates are not above the law.
They will let her go and blame it on the Russians.
If she wanted to do it right, she could have pulled the bolt and cut both the upper and lower receivers, doing it legally. . .
What kind of man lets his wife cut up his guns?
Either grounds for a very hostile divorce or she's married to a cuck.
If an AR-15 were truly as evil and dangerous as the Left would have you believe, it wouldn’t have allowed itself to be abused like that...
“What kind of man lets his wife cut up his guns?”
A doofus with the name of a duck.
BATFE would be all over any decent American who committed that "serious" felony. For special people - our ruling class - it's obvious that they have special rules. George Orwell was right.
Libs believe that they are entitled to take or destroy your property and way of life if it makes them "feel good" or if it's for "solidarity" or it's for "the children" or it's "to be fair" or it's for "equality".
Just another meaningless gesture by a liberal. They won’t say what is the real problem with today’s society which is over half of the kids don’t have a dad at home. Yet we’re not supposed to judge the women who bring all these feral children into the world. I blame the single mothers more than the kids and most of them choose to remain single....
Irony aside, it would be an excellent object lesson to DemoRats for the ATF to be ordered to prosecute her to the max and judge shop to get a conviction.
Rats and their base would have to face the actual Freedom crushing acts of the alphabet agencies and Administrative Law.
On the bright side, all her fellow Rats could visit her in prison, and tell her that the law wasn't supposed to apply to her...
“Wrist tap at most and admonishment to never do that again.”
Not to worry as long as Mueller and Rosenfeinstein are running DOJ.
Idiots don’t realize there are already many laws restricting firearms which, often times, can put you away for many years. Consider all the CCW holders that get snagged in New York as examples of honest people who suffer severe consequences when exercising their rights and their duty to protect themselves and their families.
The kind of man that does not pack the gear to deserve a gun! In other words, a liberal democrat.
Oh, but she didn’t mean to make an illegal SBR...
Do I really need the sarcasm tag?
Yet another dummy advertises to the world of thieves, rapists, and kidnappers that they are unarmed.
That excuse would work well for me and you wouldn’t it?
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