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Posted: 9/26/2022 9:11:11 PM EDT

Last week, the couple - who runs a side hustle of buying surplus lots, dividing up the products, and reselling them on eBay - received delivery of 108 empty 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. Inside were 12 fully-automatic M16s, all of them still with various tags designating the military branch and name of service members who handled the weapons.
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https://abc13.com/resellers-receive-guns-military-surplus-boxes-m16s-shipped-to-houston-ebay/12269500/
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:12:24 PM EDT
[#1]
M16’s? What M16’s??
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:12:42 PM EDT
[#2]
That friend is a dumbass.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:12:52 PM EDT
[#3]
They would have never found out if I had gotten those cases
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:12:59 PM EDT
[#4]
Legally should be their property now.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:13:00 PM EDT
[#5]
Should have kept their mouths shut.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:13:10 PM EDT
[#6]
Wish my Hardigg case came with 12 M16s.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:13:26 PM EDT
[#7]
Sigh
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:13:50 PM EDT
[#8]
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Legally should be their property now.
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Where property?
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:03 PM EDT
[#9]
It’s always idiots that win the lottery. I order something on eBay I’m lucky if it even shows up with some bubble wrap to protect it
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:20 PM EDT
[#10]
Dumb ass
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:26 PM EDT
[#11]
M16, there was no m16 in this case.   The case was empty.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:36 PM EDT
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M16’s? What M16’s??
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Maybe the other 107 were full?
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:44 PM EDT
[#13]
Oops
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:14:52 PM EDT
[#14]
People are so stupid.
There was nothing wrong with those parts kits.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:15:04 PM EDT
[#15]
Lucky...



...and dum
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:15:21 PM EDT
[#16]
Son of a bitch. My hardig arrived empty.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:15:24 PM EDT
[#17]
At the very least I'd be stripping the parts off the lowers. And then destroying the lowers.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:15:46 PM EDT
[#18]
New lower receiver is what, fifty bucks?
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:15:54 PM EDT
[#19]
Mmmmhmmm. Always set the heavy "surplus military case" aside as a thank you gift.

Crazy he found 11 M16 rifles.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:16:15 PM EDT
[#20]
The only reasonable excuse for telling the .gov you found 12 M16s in one of the cases is if you actually found 1,728 (108 cases x 12 M16s) and are throwing them a bone.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:16:33 PM EDT
[#21]
This is one of those cases (lol) that would normally seem to be impossible.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:16:33 PM EDT
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Should have kept their mouths shut.
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Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:16:33 PM EDT
[#23]
Why do people have to talk when they find cool shit. This is when you STFU, TELL NOBODY, and hide them for a rainy day and when the Chicoms or Russians decide to invade, whoop'em out like party favors
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:17:15 PM EDT
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M16’s? What M16’s??
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Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:17:21 PM EDT
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Mmmmhmmm. Always set the heavy "surplus military case" aside as a thank you gift.

Crazy he found 11 M16 rifles.
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It’s not every day you find 10 M16 rifles.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:17:32 PM EDT
[#26]
Basically PSA Premium rifles with ~$60 triggers
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:17:50 PM EDT
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[#29]
Lol, Dumbasses.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:20 PM EDT
[#30]
People REALLY need to learn how to keep their stupid fucking mouths shut.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:31 PM EDT
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At the very least I'd be stripping the parts off the lowers. And then destroying the lowers.
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Yup
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:44 PM EDT
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My neighbor has a backhoe.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:47 PM EDT
[#33]
Attachment Attached File

ETA: beat
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:49 PM EDT
[#34]
"One of the strictest things we have in the military is weapons accountability. So these weapons are missing somewhere from a U.S. armory, and somebody doesn't know it. That's the scary thing about that for the U.S. military right now."
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LMAO this shit is fucking common. I had a M242 (bradley main gun) in an army arms room that was supposedly in 2 different places in the US. The receiver was supposed to be in California, and the feeder was supposed to be in Texas. Yet I had them in fucking Kuwait. The Army fucks up their weapons accountability all the damn time and shit goes missing for sometimes years before anyone notices.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:18:59 PM EDT
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At the very least I'd be stripping the parts off the lowers. And then destroying the lowers.
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Yep, strip them of everything, then chop chop chop.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:19:08 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:19:44 PM EDT
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M16's? What M16's??
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No fucking shit.


Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:19:44 PM EDT
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"It's unbelievable to think military-grade weapons would be shipped in containers across state lines. It's pretty shocking,"
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People have no comprehension of the crap that goes through the mail system every day. And I'm not talking the rubber fists from Mr. Bezos.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:20:12 PM EDT
[#41]
The thing that PO'd me in the article was the AFT getting a search warrant.  Versus just asking the couple(who contacted them in the first place).
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:20:14 PM EDT
[#42]
They didn’t say how to buy more “empty cases”.

Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:20:28 PM EDT
[#43]
How much would 12 M-16 brand new parts kits be worth?

I'd have thrown the receivers in the ocean and sold the kits.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:21:51 PM EDT
[#44]
Nice try Mr Government Surplus Viral Marketing Guy, almost got me
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:22:53 PM EDT
[#45]
Cartels are mad but being tight lipped. Eric Holder had no comment but has doubled hid security.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:22:54 PM EDT
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M16’s? What M16’s??
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Yep
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:23:23 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:23:29 PM EDT
[#48]
When the CID and ATF show up looking for my new cases:

Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:24:15 PM EDT
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How much would 12 M-16 brand new parts kits be worth?

I'd have thrown the receivers in the ocean and sold the kits.
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If it was the full auto stuff, and not the shit with the burst cams, maybe $70 each. The burst stuff would be a bit more due to the extra disconnecter and the burst cam. So figure $1000 for the lot.

You can buy auto sears for like $20. Just cant drill the hole and install em.
Link Posted: 9/26/2022 9:24:55 PM EDT
[#50]
As a reward for their honesty, they get the ATF crawling up their ass for the foreseeable future.
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