General Categories > General Firearm Discussion
Auto Machine Guns, penalty, or lack thereof.
skydve76:
Help me understand something here, I though post ban (MG ban) auto machine guns were SEVERLY illegal with harsh penalties.
http://www.ketv.com/news/14883904/detail.html
This guy not only had thousands of pounds of explosive, he had a machine gun, another story I read said it had been modified to be fully auto.
All of this and he gets 3 years probation for both charges (last paragraph).
So it makes me wonder what if it were only the auto machine gun charge, it would of been even less time probation.
Sounds like a machine gun gets you a slap on the wrist around here?
Anyone got any more info as to why this story makes it look like owning a machine gun is no big deal. I was under the impression such a thing is prison time.
skydve76:
Also, some had silencers..
http://www.fantasybaseballcafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=297469
A-FIXER:
As I read this it did not specify if the firearm was legal with class III paperwork that would also hold true for the suppressor/s they also must have proper class III paperwork. Sounds like he got probation for the commercial firework items.
skydve76:
"Jeremy Stork could have received up to five years in prison for each offense. Instead, he'll serve three years probation for possession of destructive devices and possession of a machine gun."
From the artical man.
A-FIXER:
yes, but again this is a writer in a news report, Hype is in the air and any legal owner with proper paperwork owning a full auto rifle with suppressor get pulled over while speeding the possible news report would go something like this. Today police pulled a driver speeding in excess if 15 miles over the speed limit was pull over today on I-80 and failure to allow officers to search the auto, caused concern and was held until the permission could be sought when further inspection of the auto when found a fully auto machine gun and ammo with mags also found a anti sound aka suppressor. Owning a fully auto machine gun and suppressor is a felony and inprisonment of multiple years in prison................................clarification in newpaper 3 days later on section G- in the cooking section . Reads like this as reported earlier the suspect caught speeding 15 miles over the speed limit did indeed have proper ownership and was attending a national gun show as he was a factory rep....
all the reported facts are not known and or they chose not to find out and have been released to the the publisher of this report.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version