SETH Horvitz was looking forward to taking delivery of
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So you can imagine his surprise when the box arrived ... with a
military-grade assault rifle in it instead.
Mr Horvitz, of Washinton DC, said he contacted police
immediately after the parcel delivery service left the
military-style SIG Sauer SIG716 at his apartment door.
"They were a little confused at first. They've never seen
anything quite like it," he told Fox 5 a local television
station.
While the box was addressed to Mr Horvitz, who had ordered a
flat-screen television from a third-party retailer via Amazon.com,
an invoice inside the box suggested the gun was supposed to go to a
Pennsylvania gun shop.
Seth Horvitz and policeman examine the
box which ciontained a high-powered rifle. Mr Horvitz had ordered a
TV, he got a ready-to-fire Sig Sauer assault rifle
instead.
A spokesman for Washington's Metropolitan Police
Department said that the case — which comes on the heels of two
mass killings in the United States in less than a month — remains
under investigation.
Fox reports it was likely a labelling error in transit which
resulted in the mix-up.
Anti-gun lobbyists have expressed concern that high-powered
weapons can be shipped across the United States with little or no
checks.
