RIDICULOUS Gun Laws Let Dallas Shooter Purchase AK-47 Over Facebook (VIDEO)

The New York Daily News is reporting that the Black Nationalist terrorist who gunned down five police officers in Dallas, Texas last week, bought one of his high-powered assault weapons over Facebook.

According to the report, terrorist Micah Johnson organized the purchase of the firearm using the massive social media platform, and with no background check required, closed the deal in a Target parking lot.

Micah Johnson

The seller, Colton Crews, had forgotten about the $600 transaction. That is until federal investigators came knocking. Crews recalled the transaction with Johnson:

“He didn’t stand out as a nut job. He didn’t stand out as a crazy person at all. He stood out as just another guy. And he was U.S. service, so he was like your first pick when you’re selling a gun to somebody.”

Neither Texas nor federal law mandates a background check for a private sale if the seller is not a licensed gun owner. In other words, Crews did nothing illegal by using Facebook to sell the weapon.

Crews, now with knowledge that he sold his AK-47 to a mass murderer, told the Daily News:

“First off, it was my belief he would have passed a background check. He didn’t seem weird in any way, just a normal guy.”

Which is to say that current gun laws allow a private seller to sell an assault weapon to a stranger based on gut instinct.

While investigators did not confirm if this particular AK-47 was used in the murders of the police officers, we now know Micah Johnson was a Black Nationalist on the edge of radicalization.  Investigators later discovered that he had amassed a stockpile of weapons, ammunition, and even bomb making equipment in his home.

We can speculate that the murders by police of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile earlier in the week were the catalysts that finally radicalized Johnson; two horrific events that pushed his mind to the point where his murderous, suicidal rampage made sense.

One incontrovertible fact remains: U.S. gun laws allowed someone dancing along the edge of insanity to amass an arsenal of weapons designed for mass murder.

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R.L. Paine is a writer, activist, and science lover. We all need to find a bit more Hitch in ourselves. “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself...Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence...” - Christopher Hitchens