Busted for having Saddam's AK-47!

[223556]

Pretty clean AK pistol machine gun looking thing...
I WANT!!! I would have framed it and just say its display only non functional... hehehehe

[bigdawg86]

I thought it was pretty sweet looking... I'm not here to get into a argument about the marine and his integrity, but IF...IF I were in his shoes I would have kept it as a safe queen. Making it semi-auto would be ideal... and of course I made it from a 80% lower.

[Solidsnake87]

Funny how it was common for US troops to send foreign weapons home during WWII as souvenir. . . . . . .

[Merc1138]

Funny how it was common for US troops to send foreign weapons home during WWII as souvenir. . . . . . .

And it hasn't been common for decades, and it's been illegal to just smuggle in machine guns for decades. I support our armed forces, I do not support criminals who know better. It was his decision to risk pissing everything away and regardless of his service to our country, that doesn't put him above the law.

[furyous68]

All you sympathizers.. did you completely skip the part about him being discharged for falsifying travel papers & stealing government property? This was in ADDITION to the weapons charges. Seems like a true criminal to me. And from what I read about the Marines, stealing from the Corp is stealing from your family. Not an honorable Marine.

[Gatotsu77]

My favorite part:

possession of an illegal chrome AK-47

My favorite part:

an Ak-47 rifle

Doesn't look like a rifle to me...

[cannon]

Cool toy! Not cool enough to break the law or ruin your career for...

[m03]

Legality/Constitutionality of the import process aside, it would have been easy enough to chop up the receiver and have it rebuilt as a legal AK pistol.

Too bad.

[chris]

the guy was an idiot in the first place.

The U.S. Marine Corps discharged Miller in December 2011 after 20 years in the military for approving false travel claims and stealing from the U.S. Government.

first indicator that he was not the sharpest tool in the shed.

[Shotgun Man]

the guy was an idiot in the first place.



first indicator that he was not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Yes, I always believe in what the government says without question.

[Eat Dirt]

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So ......That was The " Bling " rifle I saw out in Bee Canyon ....( J/K )

I'll have to ask my good Hemet P. D. buddy if I can take a tour of the evidence room !!

[biglou]

This Marine gets ten years, what does Holder get ?

[laabstract]

Quote from the LAtimes article on the same subject:


As if BG's aren't already stealing guns. I guess we can pretend Ft. Irwin didn't happen either.

Hell, there are legally owned full-auto guns out there? Aren't they worried about those too?

what happened at FT Irwin?

[Elwood_Blues]

I'll have to ask my good Hemet P. D. buddy if I can take a tour of the evidence room !!

It's probably not there anymore, mysteriously misplaced evidence, some cop already has it in his safe and is keeping his mouth shut

[Nitro Express!]

Hey, funny this. I saw one of these in the Kennedy Special Warfare Museum two years ago. Such an interesting weapon. It was also bundeled in with the gold SVD and that Beretta 83, I think.