Soldiers in Texas had to get an M4 back from a butterfly sanctuary after leaving it in a truck
Haley Britzky - Yesterday 11:47 AM
At least one soldier is likely having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week after leaving a loaded M4 rifle in an unlocked truck at the Texas-Mexico border.
The incident was shared on Twitter by Marianna Wright, whose Twitter profile says she is the executive director of the National Butterfly Center, a butterfly conservatory. Wright tweeted on Monday that she came across a “running & unlocked” Texas National Guard vehicle.
“Today, I got my hands on a fully automatic weapon thanks to the stupid, irresponsible #TexasNationalGuard #OperationLonestar who left their vehicle running & unlocked with guns inside on the side of the road,” Wright tweeted. “Guess the truck could’ve been mine, too.”
A few minutes later, Wright tweeted that she’d taken the weapon from the “abandoned, unlocked vehicle,” and secured it at the National Butterfly Center where the Guard “was able to reclaim it.”
“The idiots didn’t even realize it was missing when they returned to the truck,” Wright said. The Texas Military Department did not respond to a request for comment from Task & Purpose.
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