Current Events > ATF investigating after congressional candidate cut apart AR-15

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The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is investigating congressional candidate Karen Mallard after she posted a video on Facebook that shows her cutting apart an AR-15 rifle.

The school teacher and Democrat is running for Virginia's 2nd Congressional District, hoping to oust Republican Congressman Scott Taylor.

Mallard, who has been in the classroom for 30 years, is running on a gun reform platform and said her teaching perspective is needed in Congress,

"Our job is to teach children. It's not to protect them from gun violence. That is the government's job, and they're failing at it," said Mallard.

In the video, as Mallard introduces herself, she says, "I grew up in Wise County, surrounded by guns. Our family had guns my whole life. We use them for hunting, for protection, and recreation."

Florida on February 14, and the renewed outcries for stricter gun control that followed, she and her husband agreed they didn't want the AR-15 in their home.

The couple later decided they didn't want it in anyone else's house, either.

"So, today, we're going to destroy it," Mallard state in the video before taking a handheld power saw to the rifle.

Mallard explained her gun reform platform to 13News Now on Thursday, saying, "We need just common sense gun laws, and these military-style assault weapons are the ones being used in mass shootings, and we need to get rid of the bump stocks, we need to get rid of those magazines."

In a matter of hours, the video drew hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of comments.

Many of those comments were negative. Some people accused Mallard of political grandstanding.

Several others said Mallard broke federal law by taking a legal firearm and altering it, making it into an illegal one. Many of them referred to details contained within the Sawed-Off Shotgun and Sawed-Off Rifle Act which, in part, prohibits people (except for those permitted by the act) from having a rifle that has been "modified to an overall length of less than 26 inches."

http://www.whas11.com/article/news/atf-investigating-after-congressional-candidate-cut-apart-ar-15/526932100
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lol, they're literally treating it like she burned a flag or tore up a hundred bucks.
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I mean I understand that they technically have to investigate it because of that act, but it's pretty obvious she intended to destroy it, she just didn't destroy it enough.

>_>
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UrCa1988 posted...

I mean I understand that they technically have to investigate it because of that act, but it's pretty obvious she intended to destroy it, she just didn't destroy it enough.

>_>

I wasn't aware gun control advocates were allowed to pick and choose which laws to follow.
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"In cutting the weapon she created a sawed off shotgun"

Lolwut
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Lmao that's so pathetic. What a waste of time

AlephZero posted...

UrCa1988 posted...

I mean I understand that they technically have to investigate it because of that act, but it's pretty obvious she intended to destroy it, she just didn't destroy it enough.

>_>

I wasn't aware gun control advocates were allowed to pick and choose which laws to follow.

If this is what flaunting the law looks like to you, I hope you've never jaywalked in your life.
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fenderbender321 posted...

This is why it should be legal to modify our own firearms. Throwing people in jail for that shit. The fuck outta here.

In an ideal world this would result in repealing stupid SBR and SBS laws. In reality it will just result in gun control advocates whining about stupid gun nuts.
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UrCa1988 posted...

AlephZero posted...

UrCa1988 posted...

I mean I understand that they technically have to investigate it because of that act, but it's pretty obvious she intended to destroy it, she just didn't destroy it enough.

>_>

I wasn't aware gun control advocates were allowed to pick and choose which laws to follow.

If this is what flaunting the law looks like to you, I hope you've never jaywalked in your life.

Is jaywalking a federal crime that comes with five years in prison?
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ATF is gonna bungle this again
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another reason why atf laws are bullshit.

Someone obviously without a shred of common sense demanding "common sense gun laws." That's rich. That's just too rich.
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