There's a hell of a lot more questions to this story than what the news outlets are reporting.
How did a 13-year-old buy the parts on the Internet? Unless he's flipping cash onto burner Visa cards, there's no way he's doing that without swiping a credit card from his mom.
How is a 13-year-old milling the lowers out? Even if he's buying plastic ones, you still have to mount the thing in a jig and cut it down. That's not something you can do with a power drill and an X-acto knife in the kitchen while your mom is out with Tyrone, turning tricks on the corner.
Same things go for assembly and finishing. No way in hell is a 13-year-old kid buying parts and having them shipped to somewhere, then finishing them into an actual, serviceable weapon, without his parents knowing something was going on. If they didn't know, they're ignorant and if they did know, negligent.
Regardless of how Kyra was shot, this whole thing stinks on ice. There's a whole chunk of investigation they're leaving out, and you know that this is going to be used as a wedge to try and drive new anti-gun legislation to prevent the sale of parts to private purchasers.
Valid point. Like someone else mentioned in the post, it's more likely that the parents were the ones doing the building and they're pinning it on the kid to avoid other charges.
There's a hell of a lot more questions to this story than what the news outlets are reporting.
How did a 13-year-old buy the parts on the Internet? Unless he's flipping cash onto burner Visa cards, there's no way he's doing that without swiping a credit card from his mom.
How is a 13-year-old milling the lowers out? Even if he's buying plastic ones, you still have to mount the thing in a jig and cut it down. That's not something you can do with a power drill and an X-acto knife in the kitchen while your mom is out with Tyrone, turning tricks on the corner.
Same things go for assembly and finishing. No way in hell is a 13-year-old kid buying parts and having them shipped to somewhere, then finishing them into an actual, serviceable weapon, without his parents knowing something was going on. If they didn't know, they're ignorant and if they did know, negligent.
Regardless of how Kyra was shot, this whole thing stinks on ice. There's a whole chunk of investigation they're leaving out, and you know that this is going to be used as a wedge to try and drive new anti-gun legislation to prevent the sale of parts to private purchasers.
negligentcomplicitValid point. Like someone else mentioned in the post, it's more likely that the parents were the ones doing the building and they're pinning it on the kid to avoid other charges.