Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle

[Neo]

• By Geeta Dayal
• Email Author
• 08.08.12 5:27 PM

When D.C. resident Seth Horvitz ordered a flat-panel TV on Amazon, he didn’t expect to get a military-grade assault rifle in return.

Horvitz ordered the TV, a Westinghouse 39-inch LCD, for about $320 from a third-party electronics seller on Amazon.

On Tuesday evening, a large, oblong box arrived at his doorstep via UPS Ground.
“When I saw some metal parts inside the box, I thought, ‘Maybe this is a TV stand or mount or something,’” Horvitz said in a phone interview with Wired.

“When I realized it was an assault rifle, it was pure shock and disbelief.”

Not being one to want a personal “shock and awe” arsenal of his own, Horvitz contacted the D.C. police. They immediately confiscated the box, which contained a semi-automatic Sig Sauer 716 patrol rifle.

The police informed Horvitz that the gun was illegal in the District of Columbia.

Man Orders TV Through Amazon, Gets Assault Rifle | Threat Level | Wired.com

[Mid]

gotta admire those stringent checks on weapons ownership eh

[Davis Knowlton]

I order books. I get books. They never send me cool toys.....

[draco888]

A sig rifle for $320? a bargain I would say, why did this twit open his mouth?

[Davis Knowlton]

A sig rifle for $320? a bargain I would say, why did this twit open his mouth?

Precisely. Fucking twit.

[DrB0b]

Just looked at the thread on Wired. Classic net gun thread. By post three they're arguing about whether it really counts as an assault rifle. By post 5 they're arguing about massacres and constitutional rights

[Seekingasylum]

Had this occurred in the UK the police would have charged the recipient with possession of an unlawful firearm. We are quite logical in that way.

[Mid]

Sadly the country obviously has a lot more massacres to suffer before any resemblance of sense prevails .

[FailSafe]

That rifle is nearly two grand- it's a beautiful piece of workmanship.

[Davis Knowlton]

That model Sig goes for around $1800.

[Bettyboo]

^ that's fukin superb, I'm gonna start ordering eveything on Amazon now... That'd be bucket loads in Thailand, and would be superb in the Honda City when the Fortuner drivers try to cut me up...

[Mr Lick]

Sadly the country obviously has a lot more massacres to suffer before any resemblance of sense prevails .

A few more presidential assasinations may just be the impetus they require.

[Dillinger]

That rifle is nearly two grand- it's a beautiful piece of workmanship.

Would you feel the same if you were looking down the barrel of that Penis Extension ?

[FailSafe]

^

Would a Ferrari 458 still be a nice car if it ran you over?

[withnallstoke]

Would you feel the same if you were looking down the barrel of that Penis Extension ?

The old "smoking a gun" argument.

[jizzybloke]

I order books. I get books. They never send me cool toys.....

same here but I have got a pair of trainers on order, maybe i'll get a grenade or summat

[alwarner]

I should imagine the mentalist who got the combined works of Charles Dickens instead of the rifle is going apo-fucking-pleptic!

[draco888]

I should imagine the mentalist who got the combined works of Charles Dickens instead of the rifle is going apo-fucking-pleptic!

Headlines: 7 battered with books in unprovoked attacks

[alwarner]

ha ha

[Neo]

Yeah you got to wonder about the guy that ordered the assault rifle but got the TV instead.. ..perhaps not the sort of thing he wants to make the news.. still he can keep trying, he's bound to get lucky sooner or later

[hazz]

That model Sig goes for around $1800.

One of your mates sent me a picky of you in afganistan playing with your custom 'hello kitty' M16..... is that your sig in the foreground?

Sadly the country obviously has a lot more massacres to suffer before any resemblance of sense prevails .

I think its going to be a very long wait. In the same way that the brits accept 6k a year dying in RTA's as a cost of liberal car ownership.... I think you will find enough americans feel the same way about 'voting post killings' and gun ownership to ensure that change will never happen.

[Neo]

In the same way that the brits accept 6k a year dying in RTA's as a cost of liberal car ownership....

any takers..?

[Rural Surin]

gotta admire those stringent checks on weapons ownership eh

Yes.

GOD BLESS 'MERIKA

[alwarner]

In the same way that the brits accept 6k a year dying in RTA's as a cost of liberal car ownership....

any takers..?

33K in the USA in 2010.

not really sure what that's got to do with gun deaths like.