Must be a belt-fed, multi=barrel, electric fired 30mm auto-cannon./sarc
It was a SIG Sauer SIG716 (7.62 x 51mm) semi-automatic rifle. Similar to .308 caliber.
It's worth around $2,000. He should have considered himself fortunate - like a lottery winner.
FTA:
Seth Horvitz, who lives in the northeast quadrant of the US capital, said he contacted police immediately after a parcel delivery service left the military-style SIG Sauer SIG716 at his apartment door."They were a little confused at first. They've never seen anything quite like it," he told Fox 5, a local television station.
"They just took my information and then said: 'We'll handle this weapon because it's illegal to keep here.' It's illegal to transport in a car, so it can't be returned."
While the box was addressed to Horvitz, who had ordered a flat-screen television from a third-party retailer via Amazon.com, an invoice inside the box suggested the gun was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop.
A spokesman for Washington's Metropolitan Police Department told AFP on Wednesday that the case -- which comes on the heels of two mass killings in the United States in less than a month -- remains under investigation.
On its website, the US subsidiary of SIG Sauer, a major European firearms manufacturer that supplies guns to many US police forces, says the SIG716 is "the rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger caliber carbine."