{"id":313188,"date":"2026-10-24T05:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313188\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:02:15","slug":"bensalem-township-man-arrested-after-trying-to-sell-loaded-ar-style-rifle-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313188\/","title":{"rendered":"Bensalem Township man arrested after trying to sell loaded AR-style rifle, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old Bensalem man was arrested for possessing an AR-style rifle that he was attempting to sell, according to police.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WPVI logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792818135_1_origin-wpvi.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 23, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Follow 6abc on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania  (WPVI) &#8212; A 34-year-old Bensalem man was arrested for possessing a loaded AR-style rifle that he was attempting to sell, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Patrick Gale, a previously convicted felon, was arrested Tuesday and is now being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Bensalem Township police tried to pull him over as he allegedly headed to sell the weapon. Investigators say he took off and was arrested after hitting two cars and a police cruiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the process, Gale allegedly threw a large duffle bag, with the gun inside, out of the window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers found it loaded with 16 live rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gale is charged with multiple gun-related crimes, recklessly endangering another person, fleeing and eluding and other offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old Bensalem man was arrested for possessing an AR-style rifle that he was attempting to sell, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[127927,127922,127923,191,127925,127926,193,192,2165,194,127924,40209,119151],"class_list":["post-313188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-127927","tag-ar-gun","tag-ar-style-gun","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-arrest","tag-bensalem-gun","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-police","tag-bensalem-township","tag-gun-sales","tag-guns","tag-rifle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}