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 Virginias 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 husbands 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 rifles barrel and handguard, prefaced and followed with a diatribe on gun violence.
The video, which was first pulled by a staffer in Mallards 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 wasnt 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 didnt put all that on video because I wanted to get the message to the students that I was standing with them, Mallard said
In response to the outbursts evoked by the Tidepod eaters from the shot-up school towards Dana Loesch ...
Tar and feather this supposed elected representative!!
1. the government
2. "we've always done it that way"
3. the mentally-ill people you work with
I really hope that they bust this anti-gun bitch for possessing a SBR...or for manufacturing it...or both.
Not because I’m in love with the ‘34 NFA (I despise that unconstitutional POS law), but because I want the Leftists and anti-gunners (but I repeat myself) to see, first hand, how the law REALLY is, and what its effects are. Let this bitch be prosecuted and jailed for a stupid stunt...and the message will have been delivered, that this law must be changed or eliminated.
I HOPE, HOPE, HOPE that Sessions orders the ATF to prosecute her to the full extent of the law.
“Either grounds for a very hostile divorce or she’s married to a cuck. “
yeah like the news guy who showed a 30 round magazine in D.C.
The NFA makes no provision for "do-overs." It makes absolutely no difference what she did with it after. The instant the end of the barrel fell away, she was guilty of manufacturing an SBR without paying the SOT and was in possession of an unregistered NFA, both felonies. She can crazy-glue the end of the barrel back on but that won't change the fact that she had just committed two felonies, then posted a video online of her commission of the crimes.
Her husband sounds like a complete cuck. Im sure hes fine with her mangling his weapon.
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