Man jailed for posting gun in Xbox to Aust
A US man who hid an assault rifle in a DVD player and a 9mm pistol in an Xbox console, and posted them to customers in Australia has been jailed for two years.
Adam Joseph Bunger, 34, wept in a Bowling Green, Kentucky, court on Monday when he explained he did it to pay for his girlfriend's college education.
"Maybe you should have gotten two extra jobs instead of doing this," replied US District Judge Joseph McKinley, radio station WKU reported.
Bunger had pleaded guilty to four counts of exporting firearms internationally.
Prosecutors had asked for a 30-month sentence.
Bunger sold guns to buyers across the world through the secretive German-based website Black Market Reloaded that connected buyers and sellers of illicit items, including guns, drugs and counterfeit clothes, birth certificates and other documentation.
Authorities in Sydney intercepted one of his packages in June last year.
Inside an Xbox cavity they found a Modelo Super 9mm pistol and empty magazines.
A month later, two more packages, one to Australia with the disassembled assault rifle hidden inside a DVD player and the other to Britain with an "Uzi-style pistol" inside a hollow Xbox console, were seized at a Bowling Green post office.
