We’ve all heard the phrase, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” There are times when it makes perfect sense to use it, too, because some people are idiots and deserve to understand why some of us argue that stupid should hurt.
And, unfortunately, some of these people are folks with guns. I won’t say “gun owners” because it doesn’t necessarily apply to people who have stolen firearms in their possession, and it probably doesn’t apply to those who have guns with removed serial numbers, since most of those were stolen in the first place.
It’s especially true when someone threatens a mass shooting, then has a gun with a phrase uttered by a mass killer on the gun.
A Macomb County man accused of removing the serial number from his rifle was allegedly infatuated with mass shooters, including the Oxford High School shooter.
A criminal complaint was unsealed on June 17, alleging Eleazareli Maycock, 20, had purposely removed or altered the serial number on a firearm.
The investigation began in May when the FBI received information that Maycock allegedly made threatening statements on YouTube.
On May 22, authorities went to Maycock’s house in Macomb and interviewed him.
In the interview, he admitted to possessing a Savage Arms .22 caliber rifle.
Maycock showed the rifle to the authorities, who found that the gun’s serial number had been removed. He gave the gun to the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office.
An earlier version of this story said it was a .11 caliber rifle, but they changed that and made no note of the change. I’m guessing someone called them on it and made fun of them.
The gun in question looks like one of Savage Arms’s 64 Precision rifles, which is chambered in .22 LR.
On the stock of the rifle, the words “There is no God” were written in white, with a colored-in star inside of a circle. This was something the Oxford shooter said, though it was far from unique to him.
What clued the feds onto Maycock was a comment on YouTube where he said he would emulate the Christchurch killer from New Zealand.
Now, there’s a good chance the gun was stolen, hence the serial number, but it should be noted that under the Bruen decision’s standard, laws against obliterated serial numbers aren’t constitutional. Serial numbers on guns didn’t even exist at the time of the Second Amendment’s ratification, nor were they around when the 14th Amendment incorporated the Second to apply to states and local governments. Theoretically, unless you can show the gun was stolen, he probably should skate.
And yeah, I suspect it was stolen, though the MSRP on the 64 Precision is less than $340, so it’s not a stretch to figure he bought it lawfully. Most people probably could. The fact that it seems he willingly handed it over to the police suggests that maybe he did buy it, but thought he was being a tough guy by removing the serial number on his own property–something that the state shouldn’t really get a say on anyway.
Threatening to become the next on social media is weapons-grade dumb, though, and he probably should be tried for criminal stupidity. Putting the phrase from the Oxford killer on his gun wasn’t a smart move, either, especially in light of everything else, especially in Michigan and the anti-gun jihad that’s been going on there.
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