The fat man grinned, a hint of boasting and arrogance in his tone: "But you must understand what you are getting for the extra seven thousand US dollars. You're buying not just the simple act of grinding off some numbers, but 'freedom' and 'innocence'."
"Where do you think the AR-15s on the black market come from? Most of them are stolen goods from some unlucky person's safe. Such guns might be poorly maintained, with rust in the barrel; or they might have been modified by their previous owner with unreliable parts."
"What if it jams when you pull the trigger at a crucial moment? Or worse, that gun might have already been used in a case, with its 'fingerprint' still in the police's ballistic database!"
"Buying it might mean you're taking the fall for a murderer. But this one is a 'virgin' straight off the production line, possibly never even chambered a bullet."
