美國華盛頓一名男子在亞馬遜購物網站上訂購了一臺平板電視，可收到的卻是一支強火力半自動步槍。該男子看到此“貨物”后立即報了警。他表示，起初警方也有些不知所措，因為他們原來沒碰到過這樣的事情。不過，警方在詢問了他的信息之后表示要將槍支帶走處理，因為他沒有合法持槍的資格，而且他也不能通過普通物流將槍支退回。據悉，裝有槍支的盒子上寫的雖是這名男子的姓名和地址，不過里面附帶的發票卻顯示這支槍的收貨人為賓夕法尼亞州的一家槍支商店。華盛頓警方發言人表示，此事件正在調查中。美國近一個月內連發兩起大規模槍擊事件，引發各界熱議槍支管控措施。

While the box was addressed to Horvitz, who had ordered a flat-screen television from a third-party retailer via Amazon.com, an invoice inside the box suggested the gun was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop.

Police in Washington are investigating how a man ordered a color television set via Amazon and ended up with a high-powered semi-automatic assault rifle instead. Seth Horvitz, who lives in the north east district of the US capital, contacted police immediately after a parcel delivery service left the military-style Sig Sauer SIG716 at his apartment door.

"They were a little confused at first. They've never seen anything quite like it," he told Fox 5, a local television station.

"They just took my information and then said: 'We'll handle this weapon because it's illegal to keep here.' It's illegal to transport in a car, so it can't be returned."

While the box was addressed to Horvitz, who had ordered a flat-screen television from a third-party retailer via Amazon.com, an invoice inside the box suggested the gun was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop.

A spokesman for Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said that the case - which comes on the heels of two mass killings in the US in less than a month - remains under investigation.

On its website, the US subsidiary of Sig Sauer, a major European firearms manufacturer that supplies guns to many US police forces, says the SIG716 is "the rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger calibre carbine."

"We've seen in recent weeks the tremendous damage these guns can do," said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which campaigns for greater gun control in the United States.

"We have to be better than a nation where assault weapons are so prevalent and can so easily end up in dangerous hands," he said in a statement. "It's deeply disturbing."

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