Posted on 11/16/2018 2:35:12 PM PST by Simon Green
Here’s a Friday hypothetical for you: Let’s say you purchase something that costs $50,000. Not a car or a boat or anything sizable like that, but rather something that’s portable. A nice piece of jewelry, perhaps. What’s the first thing you do with it when you’re not using it? You lock it up, right?
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside did not lock it up, and it wasn’t a $50,000 piece of jewelry. Rather, he had a just-purchased Colt M16 assault rifle stolen from his unlocked Rolls-Royce in July.
Andy Slater of 640 AM in Miami has the scoop after reviewing the police report. On July 5, Whiteside purchased the rifle, ammunition, a rifle bag and a silencer at a Miami gun shop and then went for a workout at the University of Miami, leaving his Rolls unlocked. But the next day at home, he noticed that the weapon and the rifle bag were missing and called the police, thinking it had been stolen at the workout. But a review of security footage ruled that out, and then Whiteside remembered that he also had left his car unlocked at the gun store with the rifle inside. Going off that, police determined that the firearm had been stolen there after Whiteside went back inside the store for a moment.
On July 23, Slater reports, police recovered the rifle and the silencer in a stolen vehicle in North Miami.
“I have a license for the gun that was stolen from me over the summer,” Whiteside said Thursday in a team-issued statement, per the Miami Herald. “I should have secured it better and I’m glad it was recovered. It won’t happen again. It is now locked in a safe and I only use it at the gun range.”
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Fully automatic.
Silencer (suppressor).
Still, seems like he overpaid.
Maybe it was gold plated? Like the cartels do it.
Sheriff in your county has to sign off you owning full auto and they do a more extensive background check. You have to keep the federal authorization with the weapon.
OK I’m confused. I heard/read there can not be any more machine guns sold or made after the 1986 ban to the public and there is a finite amount of them. That is why they are getting so expensive. Why are there so many out there now? youtube etc...
What am I misunderstanding?
Full auto.
To quote Sgt. Plumley from “We Were Soldiers”- “if the time comes I need one, there’ll be plenty lying on the ground.”
“Sheriff in your county has to sign off you owning full auto and they do a more extensive background check.”
Not anymore. Notification only.
“No one walks into a gun store and comes out with a select- fire weapon AND suppressor”
it is however possible that this pickup was the last stage of the lengthy, multi-step NFA process of legally obtaining both a transferable full auto firearm and a suppressor ...
still, i agree that this story has a very fishy feel to it ... of course, that simply could be because of the usual extremely poor reporting from “journalists” who don’t actually know jackshit about anything they write about ...
Could be he was just at the range shooting it then stopped at a gun store for something like more ammo or an accessory he wanted. Could be he had the rifle for a while already.
Still; not locking up a car with a firearm is just asking for it even if it’s a $200 pocket pistol.
TTWP
Look up Saddam Hussein’s gold plated AK-47 in a violin case.
Heck, there must be a goldsmith who could give my AK the same treatment. Only it wouldn’t be full auto.
I actually know someone, Cl III dealer, who left an H&K submachinegun in the trunk of his car. Next morning it was gone. He was my FFL guy & I haven’t heard from him since.
I'm not sure how they would go about eating the thing. Tough to cut, impossible to chew...
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