Chinese Teen Sentenced to Life in Prison for Buying Toy Gun Replicas Online – IOTW Report

Chinese Teen Sentenced to Life in Prison for Buying Toy Gun Replicas Online

OC: When 18-year-old Liu Dawei ordered 24 toy gun replicas from a Taiwanese website, in July 2014, he never imagined the purchase would soon land him in prison for the rest of his life.

Liu never even got the fake firearms he paid 30,540 RMB ($4,600) for, as his mail order was held at customs. Instead, police soon arrived at the front door of his home in Quanzhou city and arrested him for arms trafficking. According to the official police statement, they had intercepted his package and found that 20 of the 24 gun replicas were actually real guns. That sounds like a perfectly good explanation for the boy’s arrest, but only until you learn about what qualifies as a real gun in China.  MORE

7 Comments on Chinese Teen Sentenced to Life in Prison for Buying Toy Gun Replicas Online

  1. I’m not enough of a math wizard to understand those formulas so I plan on spending the next few days chucking hands full of beans at folks. (I used hands full as opposed to hand fulls for the same logic they say attorneys general as opposed to attorney generals. If anyone thinks I’m wrong, expect a hand full of beans.)

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