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If you search for Ben Ledford's arrest record in Sacramento County's inmate records database (http://www.sacsheriff.com/inmate_information/SearchNames.aspx http

If you search for Ben Ledford's arrest record in Sacramento County's inmate records database (http://www.sacsheriff.com/inmate_information/SearchNames.aspx http://www.sacsheriff.com/inmate_information/SearchNames.asp...), one of the items he is charged under indeed is PC 32625(A) -- possession of a machine gun. So, not sure if the news article is necessarily wrong. Clearly there is some prosecutor out there who believes that what Ben Ledford possessed qualified as the definition of a machine gun under California law.

ad_hominem 10y ago
Huh I stand corrected. I've seen ATF agents[1], FBI agents [2], as well as US district attorneys[3] incorrectly refer to semi-automatic AR-15s as "assault rifles" (which in actual fact are subclasses of machineguns), but since they charged him with that I assume it really must be a machinegun then. But now I'm really curious to know more specific details about this firearm. Particularly if it was a legally transferable machinegun (legal federally, obviously not in California), or if it was an illegally modified semi-automatic (probably most likely) or a black market gun. [1]: http://ktla.com/2015/12/02/mas-shooting-suspects-had-assault-rifles-pistols-many-magazines-in-shootout-atf/ http://ktla.com/2015/12/02/mas-shooting-suspects-had-assault... [2]: http://documents.latimes.com/lax-shooting-cell-phone-search-warrant/ http://documents.latimes.com/lax-shooting-cell-phone-search-... [3]: https://www.scribd.com/document/293561681/Enrique-Marquez-charged-with-terrorism-offenses-in-San-Bernardino-shooting-investigation https://www.scribd.com/document/293561681/Enrique-Marquez-ch...
- thesmallestcat 10y ago
  It was actually a Glock hooked up to one of these http://www.sidehustlenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/outsource-smart.gif http://www.sidehustlenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/o...

ad_hominem 10y ago

Huh I stand corrected. I've seen ATF agents[1], FBI agents [2], as well as US district attorneys[3] incorrectly refer to semi-automatic AR-15s as "assault rifles" (which in actual fact are subclasses of machineguns), but since they charged him with that I assume it really must be a machinegun then. But now I'm really curious to know more specific details about this firearm. Particularly if it was a legally transferable machinegun (legal federally, obviously not in California), or if it was an illegally modified semi-automatic (probably most likely) or a black market gun. [1]: http://ktla.com/2015/12/02/mas-shooting-suspects-had-assault-rifles-pistols-many-magazines-in-shootout-atf/ http://ktla.com/2015/12/02/mas-shooting-suspects-had-assault... [2]: http://documents.latimes.com/lax-shooting-cell-phone-search-warrant/ http://documents.latimes.com/lax-shooting-cell-phone-search-... [3]: https://www.scribd.com/document/293561681/Enrique-Marquez-charged-with-terrorism-offenses-in-San-Bernardino-shooting-investigation https://www.scribd.com/document/293561681/Enrique-Marquez-ch...

thesmallestcat 10y ago
It was actually a Glock hooked up to one of these http://www.sidehustlenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/outsource-smart.gif http://www.sidehustlenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/o...