Karen Drew of Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV opened the report with a question that is hard to shake: how does a machine gun simply disappear in the mail?
That is the center of this story, and it is what makes it so unsettling. This was not a sweater, a phone case, or some ordinary parcel delayed in a sorting bin. According to Drew’s report, this was an original Israeli 9-millimeter Uzi submachine gun that was being legally shipped from Ohio to a buyer in Florida when it vanished after reaching a USPS facility in Detroit.
Drew explained that the gun was mailed in February by Ohio firearms dealer Steve Thompson of Adco Firearms. Thompson told Local 4 that the gun left Portage, Ohio, and was tracked through the postal system until it reached Michigan…