What a waste of money. It really pisses me off that journalists think they can do illegal things just because "they're journalists".
Yeah, waste of a money and waste of a good gun.
And if I try to do the same I go straight to prison.
It's the same team of journalists who brought handguns and grenades on board an airplane (flight going to New York btw) to show that airport security is a joke.
They met a US senator after that who refused to talk about the security issue.
I think they bought plutonium and another AK in Ukraine a few years ago too.
As long as you film it and it airs on TV you can do whatever you want.