This guy was at least guilty of being an idiot.
He had modified an M16 to full auto by installing a automatic sear.
He then loans the gun to a neighbor and tells the guy not to push he selector pass semi when shooting. What the hell was he thinking?? Is he just asking to go to jail? Is he trying to push the issue of automatic weapons ownership? Or is he just stupid?
So of course the guy does push the fire selector past semi and the full auto fire draw attention of another shooter, who I believe was LE.
When his house is searched they find more M16 full auto conversion parts.
Granted, initially the people who tested the gun did not know to push the selector past the semi position but that doesn’t mean he gets a free pass.
This guy is no hero, he is an idiot.
Even with all that, if it was really so, don’t you think 30 months in jail is excessive?
First of all there was enough ambiguity that he shouldn’t have been convicted in the first place and second of all, at worst he should have received a warning.
Child rapists are given senteces of a few months or suspended sentences and a gun owner, not having harmed anyone, gets 2 and a half years in jail -— does that sound right to you?
Did ya mean to hit post 1?
Wrong
The action was probably gummed up and it misfired, causing two cartridges to fire.
I’m pretty sure the guy didn’t have a Happy Switch on it.
And again, wouldn’t the lower have to be a different size to accept an autosear?
Wrong. The rifle came that way from the manufacturer. I followed the whole sordid story over on AR15.com.
Guy has rifle. Loans it to a friend for some range time. Feebies get a report from snitch. Guy lands in hot water.
Even the court transcripts show the Feebies were screwing with the rifle to get it to slam fire.
This is a railroad job from the get go.