Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle

First time accepted submitter InfernoApple writes "Seth Horvitz, a Northeast D.C. resident, thought he had ordered a new high-definition television a few days ago through Amazon.com from a third-party merchant. When the package arrived yesterday, however, Horvitz opened the oddly shaped box to find something completely different. Instead of the flat-panel TV he had bought to enjoy with his wife, who is pregnant, Horvitz opened the long packaging to discover a Sig Sauer SIG716, a high-caliber, semi-automatic assault rifle capable of mowing down, well, just about anything."

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Re:Sounds like win-win to me!

[Sebastopol]

Actually an assault rifle has very strict legal definitions, and ARs and AKs, even semi-auto with no select-fire, are absolutely assault rifles.

The primary distinctions are high capacity magazines and 24" barrels. Even weirder, I know that my AK needed no less than 9 American made parts to be considered a "US legal assault rifle" (the freaking furniture counts!).

Citation needed. But I'm pretty sure I'm right (lol) that full-auto/select-fire is not required for true legal assault rifle definition.