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| Long Island man attacks 3 with machete while trying to buy guns, police say |
| 2022-08-14 |
| [FoxNews] A Long Island man was arrested and charged after allegedly attacking three people at a Dick’s Sporting Goods with a machete while trying to buy rifles. "So many things could have gone wrong here," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said following the Friday attack, Newsday reported. "If he was able to buy a rifle, who knows what he was planning to do with it. There was a man running around with a machete attacking people unprovoked. This could've been a lot worse." Police say West Babylon resident Treyvius Tunstall, 22, visited a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Bay Shore on Friday afternoon and bought a machete, a knife and a backpack. He inquired about buying guns at the store but was told he needed to go the chain’s Patchogue location to buy rifles. Tunstall reached the Patchogue store at about 3:15 p.m. Friday, according to police. A store employee inquired about a background check for the man to purchase the firearms, which led to Tunstall walking away and allegedly attacking a store employee and two customers with a machete, according to police. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 Dude buys a machete and tries to buy a gun at one Dicks, they refer him to another Dicks, something goes wrong with the transaction, he starts chopping people, and the dude escapes. There seems to be at least two insane people involved in this episode. A couple others seem more likely to just be incompetent possibly moronic. The second insane person appears to be the Suffolk County Police Chief who proposes red flag laws as the solution to this machete incident. The person who wrote the article is incompetent in several respects in that it was not clear whether the perp brought his earlier purchased machete into the second store of whether he rearmed himself upon arrival. Also incompetent is whoever is responsible for security policy at Dicks where they sell weapons that customers can use to rob the store and escape unopposed. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-08-14 15:37 |