Oh the boating accidents I could have...
The couple, who did not want to be identified, thought they were buying 100 empty gun storage cases from a military surplus website to resell on eBay.
"It's just a case, everybody can buy it online," one of them said.
But when a friend cracked open one of the cases, they found it was far from empty.
The couple found at least a dozen fully automatic M16s designed strictly for military use.
Now I'm not telling you to break the law here, but if you legally ordered an item online that turned out to have a full-auto dozen blasters inside, then I'm just saying... George Washington and Ben Franklin aren't going to snitch on you.
Not sure what to do, they reported it to authorities.
Within hours, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized the single box and quickly got a search warrant for the storage unit containing 100 more. Experts were shocked by what they found.
You know that made those ATF agents' day. They probably hadn't shot anyone's dogs or kicked in any doors in awhile.
"It's almost surreal to believe something like that happen nowadays. It's incredible," said retired Houston police captain and former Marine Greg Fremin. "It's unbelievable to think weapons of that grade, military-grade weapons, would be shipped in containers would be shipped across state lines and somebody have access to that. It's pretty shocking."
It's almost like the government is really bad at being efficient or protecting us or something.
The ATF confirms it is investigating along with the FBI, but did not say how many weapons have been recovered so far.
Here's my theory: There's a really sad undercover FBI agent out there waiting for his order of "boxes" who really needed those M16s to plot a kidnapping of Michigan's governor. Sad!
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