A Houston, TX area couple found military-grade fully-automatic M16 guns in storage units from a government surplus website.
They were supposed to receive more than 100 empty storage boxes that would have stored guns in a previous life. But a couple says they were stunned that at least a dozen guns came along with the order. They spoke only to ABC13.Federal authorities are trying to figure out how at least a dozen fully-automatic M16s ended up among military surplus equipment sold to a Texas couple.
Last week, the Houston couple, who run a side hustle of buying surplus lots, dividing up the products, and reselling them on eBay, received delivery of 108 storage cases sold by a government surplus website. Over the weekend, a friend helped the couple stack and store the cases. As a thank you, they gave one of the cases to the friend.When that friend opened the case, he realized it was not empty.
Our sister station, ABC13, was the only news outlet on scene. They observed agents opening, closing, and stacking multiple gun cases.ABC13 reached out to Fremin, who is now a faculty member at Sam Houston State University, about how dangerous it is to have random military equipment floating around. He continued, "For these boxes to have M16s in them and be shipped to a public destination, not only is it shocking, it's a federal crime."Exactly who's legally responsible for the gross mistake is uncertain. ABC13 contacted the online website that sold the gun cases. The company has since pulled all the other cases that were also for sale offline as it conducts an internal investigation.
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