Media says: Man planned to trade assault gun for heroin

[rambone]

Police: Man planned to trade assault gun for heroin


BRIDGEPORT -- A city man has been charged with trying to sell or trade a semi-automatic handgun for heroin.
After a call from a confidential informant, police were dispatched shortly before 11 p.m. Monday to the T-Market, 1482 Reservoir Ave., and found Victor Crespo, 37, of Platt Street, in a white van. An Intratec DC9 handgun and 9mm Lugar ammunition was allegedly found inside the vehicle.
The Intratec model is among 19 handguns named in a 1994 federal assault weapons ban.
The informant described Crespo, his van and their location, telling police the suspect had approached him at the store and offered to sell "an Uzi-type" weapon for $750, according to a police report.
Crespo was arrested without incident and charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, having weapons in a motor vehicle and possession of an assault weapon, police said.
He allegedly told police that he had agreed to meet a man later that night in a hallway of the Greene Homes housing project to trade the gun for heroin.
His wife, Judy Crespo, 38, was charged with interfering with an officer because she ignored orders and tried to flee when officers approached the van, police said.

Have you seen this assault gun?

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Well.... It LOOKS evil and black and assaulty!!

 

[WabashMX5]

It's also "among 19 handguns named in a 1994 federal assault weapons ban" — y'know, the one that expired six years ago. <facepalm>

 

[38special]

Who did it assault?

 

[Archbishop]

Never trust a gun that looks mean, it will assault you the first chance it gets. I vote for a ban it worked so well before.

 

[caddywhompus]

It's as "assaulty" as tactical bacon!

 

[.30 Cal Al]

Hi

Those things have a reputation of being unable to get four rounds off in one sitting, and you have to pretty much disassemble the thing to clear the resulting malfunction. They're so unreliable that a friend of mine called 'em, "Breakfast Guns."

Butta
Butta
JAM!

If it were up to me, I'd issue one to anyone dumb enough to want one! There'd be more school shootings, but fewer people would be hurt.

 

[paddling_man]

$750??!?!?! Did he work at Don's???

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Dieses ist eine "Angriffs Gewehr".

 

[ThrottleJockey]

The Intratec model is among 19 handguns named in a 1994 federal assault weapons ban.

Umm, just stirring the pot? Why even mention a law that doesn't even exist anymore?

Crespo was arrested without incident and charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, having weapons in a motor vehicle and possession of an assault weapon, police said.

So this is a crime now? I'm pretty sure it has to be FA to fill the shoes of "assault weapon".

Definitions A genuine assault weapon, as opposed to a legal definition, is a hand-held, selective fire weapon, which means it's capable of firing in either an automatic or a semiautomatic mode depending on the position of a selector switch. These kinds of weapons are heavily regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and are further regulated in some states. (See machine guns.)

Another example of amerikas fine media doing a bang up job.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Throttle, Bridgeport is in CT (not the Bridgeport on the west side of Indy).

CT has had an "Assault Weapons Ban" for many years now.

 

[antsi]

Dieses ist eine "Angriffs Gewehr".

Yes, I was thinking Sturmgeshutz, but we are thinking along the same lines.

I'd rather have a Stug than any amount of heroin