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MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Man in custody after Trump golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun

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Man in custody after Trump golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun

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MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago
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The man was identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58. Property and court records indicate a long criminal past in North Carolina and that he lived most recently in Hawaii.
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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    Hey, come on, who HASN’T owned a machine gun at this point. :)

    https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/06/oregons-independent-gubernatorial-hopeful-betsy-johnson-is-among-the-states-most-elite-firearms-enthusiasts-machine-gun-owners.html

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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      Not that it changes anything but, I kind of want to know what gun it is, out of personal interest. Cold war era? There’s so many one offs and weird stuff we tried. Is this a click bait way of saying she has an MP5 or MAC 10? I tried googling it and came up empty handed.

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        Rolling Stone says it’s a MAC-10, but that’s the only reference I could find.

        Johnson is not a middle-of-the-road politician. She owns a MAC-10 submachine gun — and received an A-rating from the NRA. On the campaign trail, she comes across like a pro-choice Ron DeSantis, vowing to give a voice to “really pissed off” Oregonians who are “terrified of the progressive left,” while blasting “wokeness” as “another form of intolerance.”

        I was honestly shocked there isn’t video of her blasting away at something as so many others seem to do any more.

        I was also wondering if it was a Johnson Machine Gun and she was related to the inventor or that it was at least something historical.

        • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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          Now for the personal interest bit - I would pay real dollars in a pay per view for the comedy that would be her trying to recoil control a mac-10 at like a range or something.

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            I dunno, her dad is ex military and she’s a helicopter pilot who did competitive helicopter games with the Soviets in the 70s from what I could find. I think she can use it.

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    Obviously, the crime wasn’t owning the gun. It was committing a Wrongthink while owning the gun.

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      What are the implications of a… Wrongthink?

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        Believe it or not, jail.

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    Just gonna drop this here. https://youtu.be/TY0eUQ06Q2g?si=tvLv3TQlrXVwBGI3

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      Omg!!! I needed that.

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    What is the relevance beyond this dude being way into guns? I mean I think attempted assassination told us that already.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      Because a dude with gun convictions didn’t have much an issue getting a new gun

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        In America? You’re joking!

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    Could it be?

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    Doesn’t everyone in the u.s?

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      I don’t at the moment. I accidentally left it in the handicapped stall of a Walmart restroom a few weeks ago.

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        You take off the gun and put it on top of the toilet tank while you take a shit and forget, it happens

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