- California authorities found a man illegally owning 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo.
- The state attorney general said he also had 3,000 magazines and several grenades in his home.
- The guns included 11 machine guns, 133 handguns, and 60 assault rifles, authorities said.
The best part is, it sounds like they arrested him and seized his guns, all without a shot being fired.
I would love to know why this guy felt he needed so many guns and ammo, because obviously it wasn’t to protect himself from a hostile government.
I guess we found the guy causing the Ammo shortage, it wasn’t Obama after all!
They didn’t name him how do you know it wasn’t Obama
"Muh protection rifles! "
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Lemmy Users: Gun control works great! Machine guns are illegal so nobody will have any, we are all safe!
California man: Hold my beer…
Gun control does work great, when implemented on a national level.
Literally no science to support the notion it doesn’t.
Only brainwashed Americans think it doesn’t work.
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The US has the right to bear arms enshrined in our constitution. I don’t need any justification beyond it is my right. Feel free to give away you personal rights in your own country, I could care less.
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Gun control doesn’t work because criminals don’t pay attention to laws. The only people who will follow the law are the non-criminals.
You mean you “couldn’t care less”, not you “could care less”.
Dear America — David Mitchell’s soapbox
You’re repeating bad NRA propaganda. There is zero evidence that gun control doesn’t work, and a literal fuckton of evidence that it does.
So be brainwashed if you will, but there is literally no science at all to support your side, so you’re essentially worse than a Flat Earther in this argument. Since they at least offer attempts at explaining their insanity. You don’t, you just say something without having any actual evidence for it.
https://epirev.oxfordjournals.org/content/38/1/140.full.pdf+html
This criminal, the one in the article, didn’t pay attention to the laws. He was arrested before he shot anyone with his arsenal.
Yep foolish laws make otherwise law abiding citizens criminals over the mere possession of an outlawed item. Even though no other individual was hurt.
Sound strangely familiar… what’s that word that rhymes with hugs? Nancy Reagan had a war with it or something…
So in one incident, a shooter with a history of violence buys guns, keeps them for years, and then shoots up a mall. According to gun fetishists, gun laws would do nothing to prevent that incident. In another incident, a person with a history of violence buys guns, keeps them for years, and is arrested for owning guns he shouldn’t have. Thus, there is no mass shooting incident.
I’m desperately trying to figure out what kind of incident will prove this point without requiring a friggin time machine.
You’re falling into a cognitive fallacy that many fanatic gun grabbers seem to exhibit. You assume a crime will be committed in the future based on owning an inanimate object.
Pro 2A enjoyers reject that fallacy. An inanimate object does not have agency. Agency is held by the individual. The individual should enjoy the benefits and responsibilities from the use of an object as well as the consequences of misuse that come with it. The group should not be punished for the crimes of a few.
Law abiding citizens that own guns are not criminals and we reject assertions that we are wrong for owning an object. The safest most law abiding segment of society are conceal and carry permit holders. Millions of us carry every day and do not break the law and do no harm to others.
But that fact is conveniently forgotten by fanatic gun grabbers when pursuing their agenda.
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Send it to Ukraine
“Mr. Webley, I trust you have a license for that firearm?”
“(mumble mumble)”
“He does for this one.”
Somewhere in another timeline, a person has asked “How on earth would gun laws actually stop a mass shooting like this one involving 11 machine guns and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition?” And then a timeline-traveler would have brought that person to this timeline, and shown them this article, where said individual was arrested ahead of time.
So from what I’ve read he wasn’t arrested because of the quantity of guns and ammo, but just because he wasn’t supposed to have weapons.
Makes me wonder if there are any laws on the books for how many guns and bullets one person can own and store on their property.
How the hell do you get 11 machine guns. That’s a full on armory
I live a half hour away from Addyston, OH. No problemo.
Ok, and I’ve done a shit ton of drugs in Dayton, I get like police chiefs and gang members getting automatic weapons. But this guy seems like a collector and not an arms trafficker (well non-collection trafficker) or something similar. As a person in some seedy shit I just don’t get how you’d even bring that shit up.
Though as I say this I realize I have gun friends and am probably less degrees of separation from buying a machine gun than I think I am. That’s concerning.
Fair point, but even as a collector, the number of weapons that went through his hands is quite concerning, to say the least.
(FWIW, I’m no expert of any kind, but am the son of a gunsmith/Maine State Hunting Guide/competitive marksman/redneck motherfucker who taught shooting and hunter safety, and who loathed the NRA, so my opinion is admittedly a bit skewed.)
Yeah I’m just some Midwestern dyke who hangs out with unsavory folks but that’s the thing in my perspective, you need a criminal side, a gun side, and to be the sort of person people will consider selling an illegal gun to. All of which is wild to me. Like acid is a pain to get, but machine guns…
Seriously, I think I’d have an easier time getting machine gun manufacturing going than purchasing
It’s for that really big bear.
When waging war is your weekend hobby.
That’s just your average republican.
The guns included 11 machine guns, 133 handguns, and 60 assault rifles, authorities said.
A little confused by this… a majority of assault rifles are machine guns, no? And I can’t imagine what other kind of fully auto weapon he could have gotten. What are the “11 machine guns”, SMGs or LMGs/GPMGs?
Edit: He straight up just has belt-fed machine guns, how the fuck do you obtain 11 of those?
Should have changed his name to William Ronald Milita.
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Let me guess let me guess let me guess… You are a Trump fan?
Fuck Trump. Fuck Biden.
So… Is he an imigrant or not?
I can bet my ass that he was working with the cartel sending them guns and amo…
Unless you are Native American (assuming you’re in the US), you (and I) come from a line of either immigrants or slaves, so you might wanna rethink that narrow attitude, bud.
Also, which out of roughly 150 cartels, precisely, is ‘the’ cartel you refer to?
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I sure don’t actually know how many cartels, but what you typed suggested that there’s only one.
As far as my spitball number of 150, I got that from a blurb from this:
I see that 150 was their sample size, so I think I’m shy on that number, but you can argue with them, as they have more facts at their fingers than I.
Now I’m gonna take some advice from Proverbs 26:4-5, and not argue with a fool.
You have no idea how the cartel works do you?
There is only one “on that area” sure another can try to get in but will fail… “How many prople work for the mexican drug cartels” hahahhahhahaha oh my God… Read a book
Which book from your personal library do you suggest?
sir its lemmy not twitter.
