A New York couple was horrified when a UPS delivery that they thought was a Christmas present turned out to be an assault rifle.
Newsday reports that Joel Berman opened the keyboard-sized case in front of his wife and 6-year-old granddaughter Wednesday night in Oceanside, on Long Island.
Instead of a toy plane they were buying for their friend’s son, they found a semi-automatic rifle, scope, stand, ammo clip and copies of an Arizona man’s driver’s license and concealed-weapons permit.
They hustled their granddaughter out of the room and called police, who picked up the weapon.
Atlanta-based UPS says it’s investigating the “highly unusual incident.” The company says it accepts legal shipments of some firearms. It says shippers must meet certain requirements.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Would you have reported this story if the grandparents opened up what turned out to be several porn pictures in front of their grandaughter?
The statement that it was an “assault rifle” is a lie. It may have been a modern sporting rifle, or a modern defense rifle, but I doubt seriously that it was selective fire.
But since the “Associated Press” wrote that in, nobody had the intestinal fortitude the change the name into the proper terms.
The bigger question is, ‘s by did UPS screw up and who got the keyboard?
There was no keyboard involved at all, not even a keyboard box. So to answer your question, no one got a keyboard.
May have been a surprise but to hustle your granddaughter out!!!as though it would damage her to see a hunting rifle! People are STRANGE!!!
Good lord, this is so NOT a story.
O no another liberal triggered by the Second Amendment. Run for cover the rifle might start firing on its own, O the horror! Silly liberals, making an ass of yourselves one liberal at a time.
call out the psychological trauma team…this family is suffering from new-york-liberal-syndrome. chances are that that terror device was pre-loaded and ready to auto-fire. chances are that it was loaded with combo heat-seeking and motion-seeking projectiles such that it didn’t matter where it was pointing because those projectiles would seek out any warm body that was moving. thank god that he sent them out of the room because, as we all know, bullets will not go through walls. hope this clears things up for eveyone not very familiar with the hand-held devices that won your freedom, and that provide a restraint against those who would oppress you completely. not that that would ever happen, of course.