SOLD TEXAS KILLER A GUN

Johnson wasn’t ‘nut job’ Facebook deal shocker

MICAH JOHNSON never balked at the $600 asking price for an AK-47 assault rifle. The buy was arranged via Facebook, and consummated in the parking lot of a Target.

Seller Colton Crews forgot about the deal until last week, when ex-Army reservist Johnson killed five Dallas police officers — and federal investigators tracked Crews down.

“I don’t even know how I feel about it right now,” Crews told the Daily News. “I have no idea. It’s awful. It’s just bad.”

Crews, 26, said there was no inkling during their 15-minute November 2014 transaction that Johnson was anything except a military veteran and a solid citizen.

“He didn’t stand out as a nut job. He didn’t stand out as a crazy person at all,” Crews said. “He stood out as just another guy. And he was U.S. service, so he was like your first pick when you’re selling a gun to somebody.”

While the AK-47 sale shows how easy it was for Johnson to acquire a killing machine, the semiautomatic weapon wasn’t necessarily the gun Johnson used Thursday when he opened fire on police in downtown Dallas.

Crews specifically asked a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent if his old weapon played a part in the law enforcement carnage.

“He said, ‘All we can say is it was recovered. We’re just finding out everything we can,’ ” Crews said. “He didn’t say it was the one he used. I hope to God it wasn’t. I hope I’m not that close to all this.”

Investigators searching Johnson’s home in Mesquite, Tex., uncovered a cache of rifles, ammunition, bombmaking materials and bulletproof vests.

Nineteen months earlier, Johnson met up with Crews in the parking lot of the Target outlet in Carrollton, Tex.

Crews, joined by his stepdad for the gun sale, recalled Johnson as little more than a