Do Gun Nuts Need a 12-Step Program? 0
I couldn’t pass this up, even as I’m setting up locally to troubleshoot my theme:
A officer in Philadelphia had such a bad case of gunnuttery that he stole parts from the forensics unit. There appears to have been an attempt to cover it up, apparently out of deference to his parents, who worked for (or, in the case of his father, had retired from) the department, but it doesn’t appear to have been covered up at a departmental level.
This lust for guns seems to go far beyond sport or self-defense or a well-regulated militia into some realm of pathology.
There is nothing “well-regulated” about this:
When firearms examiners discovered that parts from an AR-15 and M2 carbine had been removed – and crudely replaced with parts from a semiautomatic weapon – many immediately suspected Magsam, the sources said.
The stolen parts were soon returned – and photographed by members of the FIU – and Magsam offered a tearful confession to Testa, the sources said.
Being in possession of stolen or unregistered automatic-weapon parts is a violation of the National Firearms Act, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
