VERY good point. I have lost track of the times someone has asked me "why not" when it comes to stuff like this. This is why I tell them. I am sure he "thought" it was real cool to make some cash making ammo. I am sure he thought nothing would ever come of it. The point is why take the risk in the first damn place. Now he ruined his life over making a few bucks.Bet he doesn’t feel so cool now.
The shooting, while related, is not why this guy went to jail.
He went to jail because he felt he didn’t need to get all the licenses and pay all the fees that everyone else does.
If you make rimfire ammunition without a license that’s a felony too, even though incendiary and armor piercing sound scary.
Lots of things are against the law if you don’t get the license first. Driving for instance.
This is why you don’t sell your handloads. I didn’t read the article and don’t care to. I read enough about morons and the insane. I will blindly assume this twit had no idea his friend was going to go crazy. But this is the precise reason not to sell your ammunition.(Without proper licensing, anyway.)
Rest assured his prison is not like Rikers Island.
I don’t know that it should be, but he made the mistake, the point is moot now.
Don’t drop the soap...
How do you know he was up to no good? Do you have a link to some more info?
Probably because he didn't know it was a risk. Should he have checked into the laws more thoroughly? Yes. Would the vast majority of gun owners have known any better than he did? No.
Not really. You do this particular crime (selling reloaded ammo without a license) and most of the time, you get away with it without even knowing you committed a crime at all.
Especially over 25 years...
IMHO Paddock was just plain Evil. He did what he did just because he wanted to...
Maybe. I'm always surprised at how ignorant many gun owners can be. Just look at all the questions that get asked on forums like this that can be answered in minutes with a simple internet search. I know a Vietnam vet who's a huge gun collector who brought his relative in New Jersey a shotgun. Just brought it there and gave it to him. Dude has bought and sold hundreds of guns over the last few decades and didn't have the slightest idea that doing a private interstate transfer like that was illegal. I know two FFL's who think that it's perfectly legal to do private interstate transfers between relatives without an FFL.
Before they changed the law here I often bought and sold. Loved being able to buy some gun, play a while, sell it to try something else. I was ALWAYS careful. When selling I would ask the caller, you a resident of this state? If so I will need ID, I am going to write you a bill of sale. If this made the buyer not want the gun, great. I have seen people who were really pushing this line, the selling, mainly shows when they were still worth going to. To me? It was not worth the risk however small. Now that they passed law that we can't sell face to face here I do not do it. MANY gun owners still do. They may go the rest of their life and never have a problem. I will not. Now I seldom sell as it means taking a loss. The few times I did sell and took a loss to me it was well worth it. I could easily find buyers who wanted to skirt the state law here and it would have meant I could get all my money back out of a gun. To me this slight amount of cash was no way worth the risk, however small, that I would get into a legal bind over it. Every time some gun owner does something stupid and gets caught I am sure they wish they had not done it. Little late then.
Except private firearms sales where it is legal isn't illegal. Selling surplus factory ammo isn't either. Making ammo and selling it is illegal..Unless authorized (licensed) to do so.
Do you know this for a fact, or are you just assuming? Source?
