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FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y ago[flagged]
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- bhouston 2y agoA member of the far right No Lives Matter organization. First time I’ve heard of the group.
- tokai 2y agoWhere do you read there there is an organization called that? The articles states 'The filing also references Spafford’s belief in “no lives matter,”'.
- elmomle 2y agoTo finish the sentence you were quoting: '“no lives matter,” an apparent nod to a far-right ideology that primarily coordinates through encrypted apps.' First page of Google gives this: https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2 https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2
- wumeow 2y ago> NLM states that “societal standards should not exist. They are to be crushed by any means possible. If they comply to the societal standards[,] they are mundane,” and encourages the “spread of terror to all who are mundane.” In April 2024, NLM publicly rejected further association with the online violent torture and sextortion network, 764. NLM stated that it “was originally formed as an ideology…for 764 to follow,” but the “alliance” with 764 was discontinued due to the network’s ties to Satanism and pedophilia. Well apparently some societal standards should exist.
- xsmasher 2y ago"We are not the same. I'm an American, you're a sick asshole." ~ William 'D-Fens' Foster
- tokai 2y agoYeah I obviously read that. Ideology != organization. I'm well aware of the slogan, its been popular in right wing circles for as long as black lives matters has been around. Thank you for the link. Which is still not about an organization but about a telegram group. Just wanted to know were GP got the organization bit from the shared link.
- bhouston 2y agoI read another article, in this case one in the New York Times that said: They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said. No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram. The movement’s adherents promote “targeted attacks, mass killings and criminal activity” and have “historically encouraged members to engage in self-harm and animal abuse,” according to a threat assessment released in August by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoThe patch shown in the indictment is literally a meme patch you can buy from a bunch of edgy shops that sell patches for like ten dollars. It’s not like a membership badge or anything.
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- llamaimperative 2y agoDo you think Al Qaeda has membership badges or is it mostly just a bunch of people buying into the same set of memes? What about vegans? No one is mistaking this for a “membership badge.” They’re taking it as a signal for what a person believes, and acknowledging that extreme belief formation (even if cynical and “just a joke bro lmao”) is very often part and parcel with group identity.
- IshKebab 2y ago> Do you think Al Qaeda has membership badges or is it mostly just a bunch of people buying into the same set of memes? Yes, Al Qaeda is obviously a real group with actual members, rather than a random meme. Was that a serious question?
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- energy123 2y agoRead about O9A. There's a strain of neo-Nazism that cross pollinated with Satanism a few decades ago and they've maintained a small presence. They appreciate things like animal abuse.
- pseudo0 2y agoAnd of course, the main publisher of O9A extremist propaganda is a multi-decade FBI informant... https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-ext...
- compass_copium 2y agoIt's loosely affiliated (or was anyway) with the 764/com groups that were in the news a little while back, and linked to MKY, a Russian terror group. M. A. Argentino has good articles about this set: https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleashed-the-764-network-and-no-lives-matters-new-ideological-manifesto-and-the-hasselby-attack/ https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash... 764 members have been getting arrested periodically. One was arrested earlier in December: https://cyberscoop.com/baron-martin-arrested-for-child-abuse-material-cyberstalking-764-cvlt-networks/ https://cyberscoop.com/baron-martin-arrested-for-child-abuse...
- sigzero 2y agoIt isn't a group, that's why.
- z3c0 2y agoOn what basis are you making that claim? Multiple sources link No Lives Matter back to an intentionally formed subgroup of 764, started by a specific Swedish 14-year-old. https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/stockholm-attacks-linked-to-satanic-internet-cult/ https://nordictimes.com/the-nordics/sweden/stockholm-attacks...
- lordofgibbons 2y ago> The filing also references Spafford’s belief in “no lives matter,” an apparent nod to a far-right ideology that primarily coordinates through encrypted apps. That's a scary sentence. I fear this might be used to mandate backdoors into encrypted apps.
- neilv 2y agoThe journalist's bio: > I am The Hill’s national security and legal affairs reporter [...] So I assume the journalist wrote the piece themself, and knew how loaded that line was.
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- wakawaka28 2y agoYour instincts are right. They parade the freaks in front of our faces to manufacture consent for all kinds of oppression. >I fear this might be used to mandate backdoors into encrypted apps. You mean above and beyond the multiple levels of surveillance now in place, including AI agents on your devices and god knows what backdoors into TLS? They already have more than most people imagine. They just don't want you to know for various reasons.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoThe sentence is accurate nonetheless.
- dotancohen 2y agoYes, implanting inaccurate ideas in peoples' worldviews via the use of not-innaccurate statements is an artform that is being perfected. This is a scary example of such.
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- icameron 2y agoAs a teenager in the 90s I was a bit of a pyromaniac. The early internet allowed us to purchase long fuses, nitromethane from eBay, and “homemade C4” from Amazon. An FBI field agent had a knock and talk to the address we had ordered the fuses to. They don’t mess around! Not sure how they found out either.
- macintux 2y agoI have a very old, very fuzzy memory of someone telling a story about sending a completely meaningless, “encrypted” (garbage) snail mail letter to somewhere in the Soviet Union. Despite taking great precautions to obscure their identity, they still received a visit from government law enforcement.
- geor9e 2y agoThat unique 90s time period where any kid could print out bomb making recipes on the school printer from alt.anarchy or whatever, but columbine hadn't occurred yet so we didn't really get in trouble when a teacher found out.
- StanislavPetrov 2y agoIn the early 1990s a friend of mine ran a dial-up BBS. It was completely unmoderated (aside from spam), and ended up become a rather active board for (mostly black hat) hackers to post and trade information. My friend wasn't involved in any hacking directly - he simply ran the BBS which also hosted a bunch of doors (games) like TW2002 that were also quite popular. One day, a mutual friend of ours (who was an aspiring black hat hacker) got picked up by the FBI for a variety of phone phreaking offenses. During questioning, they asked him a bunch of questions about the BBS. As soon as he got out on bail, he relayed this information to my friend who ran the BBS. Needless to say, the BBS was shut down and all of the disks/hard drives trashed within an hour. Thankfully there were never any legal implications for my friend with the BBS, but you can be damn sure there were quite a few sleepless nights subsequently as he waited for a knock on the door!
- SoftTalker 2y agoOr the '80s, when you could just order the Anarchist Cookbook from a willing bookstore (some would refuse). At the time I recall that there were definitely kids into this stuff. Not literal anarchy or violence, they just liked making bombs and setting them off out in the woods somewhere. Homemade fireworks really. They got into the chemistry of it, just nerdy stuff. No harm intended.
- kridsdale1 2y agoWell fuck this guy. God job feds.
- rconti 2y ago> The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness described the ideology as one that “promotes targeted attacks, mass killings, and criminal activity, and has historically encouraged members to engage in self-harm and animal abuse.” wait, what?
- compass_copium 2y agoMKY/com groups. A very evil part of the internet: https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleashed-the-764-network-and-no-lives-matters-new-ideological-manifesto-and-the-hasselby-attack/ https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleash...
- boomboomsubban 2y agoIf he was prepared to set up a turret to prevent his arrest, how did they nab him without incident? Reading more about this, it seems to have come after a several year investigation. Yet he is out on bail as for some reason the only thing he's being charged with is owning a short barreled rifle. Which seems bizarre. https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-12-31/norfolk-homemade-explosives-brad-kenneth-spafford-bond https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-12-31/norfolk-homemade-explosi...
- ty6853 2y agoTannerite, black powder and some explosives can be legally bought and owned cash and carry. It's quite likely no law was broken and all they found was a questionable pistol brace on a short lower. Remember FPSRussia went down for paint on a serial number and a few vape pens but the arrest bulletin made him sound like a madman.
- loamaa 2y agoI was interested, so went and checked out the filing for this [1], it looks like he only got hit with the possession with intent to distribute, with the other 3 charges (including 'possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number') being dismissed. [1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8228342/parties/united-states-v-myers/ https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8228342/parties/united-...
- throwup238 2y agoMarijuana and honey oil. He watched too much Trailer Park Boys and got caught.
- throwaway173738 2y agoHe must’ve forgot to mix it with maple syrup.
- WatchDog 2y agoHe took a plea deal, might have beaten the charges at trial, but the consequences of losing were way too high for him, can’t really blame him.
- ty6853 2y agoRight to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. You could own cannons and warships when 2a was passed. The real criminal in this case is feds depriving fundamental civil rights under color of law. The failure to register short barrel rifle pretext in particular is based on faulty precedent that military did not use short barrel arms thus the NFA stamp was 'constitutional'. ( then, lol, gov obliviously sold a bunch of surplus rifles to public breaking this same law on accident which is why rifles have lower limit now than shotguns).
- Hnrobert42 2y agoYes. How dare the government of today decide to regulate firearms when the government of 250 years ago already did?! /s
- 15155 2y agoYou're welcome to amend the Constitution and there's a prescribed process for doing so.
- Hnrobert42 2y agoThe current interpretation of the second amendment is the issue. It has been completely severed from the "A well regulated militia" clause.
- adolph 2y agoWas there some previous interpretation that was utopian?
- giantg2 2y agoEven if that clause was tied to it, how would that affect things given US Title 10 ss 246? I've always wondered if they would enforce those restrictions - disarming disabled people, disarming people over 45, and disarming most women (not in the national guard). Likewise, would that mean I'm then able to own the same weapons individually that the organized militia uses for their duties? It makes for an interesting thought experiment.
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- bboygravity 2y agoWhat do you mean? I'm one of the majority non-millionaires and I'm not feeling any threat of being murdered daily? What do you mean?
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- neilv 2y agoCan you say more directly what you mean? (People can guess at the gap between what you're responding to, and what you said, but why not spell it out.)
- ganoushoreilly 2y agoIf you want to go down a rabbit hole, lookup videos on youtube of clearly paranoid schizophrenics that believe the fed has them under watch. I randomly fond one once and it was wild the mental gymnastics being done to justify her belief. I really felt bad for the woman.
- aspenmayer 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
- neilv 2y agoIn this case, I figured the person who said "Is already open season on the non-millionaire populace, it has been for a long time." was referring to various inequities (for example, the effects of regulatory capture). (Not some literal murderous hunting of the lower classes for sport by the elite, nor some black helicopter conspiracy theory.) But they were responding to a message about political murders that included "[...] you don't want to signal to the militant mentally ill that it's open season." So they left a gap between the prompt and the response, for the reader to figure out what was implied. One guess of the reader about the gap could be that the speaker is simply taking the opportunity to point out, or complain about, the inequities. Or, a different guess of the reader about the gap could be that the writer is hinting that they think the inquity situation has escalated, or should escalate, to political murders. Maybe they mean that, or, I'd guess more likely, they just feel disempowered by the inequities, and suggesting that the citizenry has power provides some hope or relief. Since the writer didn't say, the gap is closed by the reader's own biases or suspicions of what the writer intended. Assuming that the writer is a normal individual (not psyops), then saying what they mean by the gap would help them communicate. I suppose that saying what they mean might also help their message not be lost in the massive flood of social media point-scoring noise.
- neom 2y ago"and shared a conspiracy theory that missing children were taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters." I'm so curious, how do people get indoctrinated like this? What is the discussion around the proverbial camp fire that can create this line of logic being accepted into someones reality? I honestly can't even imagine up a conversation.
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- layer8 2y agoOne needs to contemplate that the normal explanations for school shootings and similar topics of conflict likely causes them a greater cognitive dissonance.
- mhh__ 2y agoSome people are just very susceptible although I think it's probably worth saying that everyone interesting probably has some beliefs that seem quite odd if written down in a very matter of fact way by a journalist who doesn't like you. I suppose the most concise answer is really just "ideology".
- mmooss 2y agoPart of it might be the normalization of extreme and obvious paranoia, falsehoods, and anger. Even mainstream leaders do it - look at the Republican party talking about people eating cats, and what was (and is) said about toward trans people. Somewhat more fringe talk(ed) about pedophile rings in government, etc. Is the consipiracy theory you cite so far advanced from that?
- ternnoburn 2y agoI think it's an information diet thing. Once you accept Fox News as being truthful, you move on to at least giving some thought to what folks like Alex Jones are saying. And the first thing fringe folks tell you is, "you are right, you are smart, you are clever. You've seen that they are covering up the truth, and you are wise to start questioning everything." Once you get isolated by a bunch of media that tells you how impressive you are and tells you that anyone questioning you is trying to hold you back, you get separated from those who care about you. Once your loved ones give up on you, you turn to forums and chat groups of others in similar situations. They also tell you that you are smart and clever. It's a classic abuser playbook, and unfortunately it's really really hard to unwind after a certain point. And we value freedom of speech too much to cut off the early on-ramps to this path. But we don't fund the education or the high quality information sources enough to help provide alternatives or defenses.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoThe one explosive they mention by name as "unstable" is actually a pretty professional primary for specialist applications. Easy to synthesize from common materials but not trivial for amateurs to make usable. In addition to being entirely unworkable as a main high-explosive it also tends to rapidly decompose (benignly) when in contact with many common metals and poor storage, so shelf-life can be an issue.
- Hilift 2y agoIt's stable when pure. This guy made his own, and lost three fingers in the process. It seems to have developed a reputation with suicide bombers, probably due to the illusion of easy manufacture.
- jandrewrogers 2y agoThe articles I’ve seen do not imply he lost his fingers working with it. I’ve also never seen it associated with suicide bombers, you may be thinking of acetone peroxide chemistries (e.g. TATP), which are common low-grade explosives used by terrorists. Also highly inadvisable, TATP is a pretty shit explosive in almost all aspects (low power, low stability). Someone stupid enough to be using TATP should not be using HMTD, as the latter requires more discipline than TATP. There is a technical gap between making HMTD and processing it into a form that can actually be used in practical explosive systems.
- littlestymaar 2y ago> The one explosive they mention by name as "unstable" is actually a pretty professional primary There's no contradiction here, the main characteristic of a primary is it's (relative) instability.
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- compass_copium 2y agoInterestingly, this guy was not apparently working or communicating with an undercover agent, which is very often the case on a bust like this. You hear a lot about plots where the would-be attacker is holding fake bombs supplied by an agent. Not many where the guy assembled a lot of explosives on his own. Glad he was caught.
- fullspectrumdev 2y agoI’m still not sure what this guy is meant to have done wrong beyond having a rifle that’s “too short” and blowing up some shit on his own property and I guess having some edgy political ideas. None of which should be crimes.
- surfingdino 2y agoMaking pipe bombs is not something you can defend in court, even if purchase and possession of explosives is legal.
- magic_smoke_ee 2y agoPipe bombs can be legally owned by private parties with an DD NFA tax stamp. They probably require a certain type of BATF manufacturer cert to make as well.
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoThis is correct. ATF permit to manufacture and use explosives, and Destructive Devices. Register the destructive device and any made explosives. Normally each state has an explosives license that you must also have, some of which are almost impossible to obtain unless this is your main job, so hobbyists can't get a permit. Also destructive devices have to be legal in the state. And the use of the device has to be recorded via paperwork. As someone who has an interest in energetics and law, the federal law is pretty reasonable if not just a pain in the ass to handle paperwork wise. The addition of every state having laws you need to comply with in addition can make this pretty easy or upright impossible unless your main day job is working in some mine or something similar.
- magic_smoke_ee 2y agoHad to look it up because I can't remember nitty-gritty details: DD manufacturer under class 10 FFL or class 2 SOT. I imagine the various types of insurance needed to operate such a business are expensive and painful too.
- jl6 2y agoIf this guy went on a terror rampage and it later emerged that he had spent years stockpiling bombs and obsessing over weapons, there would be a chorus of “why didn’t someone intervene earlier?” and “of course the guy was dangerous”. Hindsight makes it easy, but before the fact it’s difficult to judge where to place the line between non-criminal eccentricity and imminent threat.
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- jmathai 2y agoFrom the article, there seemed to be evidence of mental instability and propensity towards violence. I don’t know the line but it seems this would obviously warrant investigation regardless of if this person broke a law. I say that as someone who believes in limited government.
- bloomingeek 2y agoYour point, to me, is well taken. I can't imagine being a neighbor of this man when he suddenly snapped and went on a rampage. Some might argue who knows if he would have ever snapped, that's all well and good if you're not living near him. Is it fair of my neighbor to instill fear in his fellow neighbors? What if his stash was kept secret for decades, are all those bombs good for the neighborhood? What if he dies and then his stash is discovered in some kind of explosive event?
- oceanplexian 2y agoThere are probably lots of people doing exactly that, who are running meth labs or dealing drugs like Fentanyl with minimal scrutiny from federal law enforcement. However, instead of going after those criminals, the FBI has placed its focus on sending a SWAT team to arrest someone who downloaded the wrong 3D print file or ordered a spicy plastic gun accessory on the Internet. That’s a disingenuous application of the law by people who have an agenda, not an approach that’s actually intended to reduce harm.
- yapyap 2y agowish there were pictures for this, new years must’ve been crazy if you celebrated with that guy
- wyldfire 2y ago> defendant ... shared a conspiracy theory that missing children were taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters. This conspiracy seems like it would appeal to those who recognize that mass killings/suicides at schools are tragic and we are awful for not intervening. But if it turns out that The Government is perpetrating the evil, then we can absolve ourselves of the blame because no amount of legislation could stop their covert actions.
- nkrisc 2y agoThey want to blame anything except the availability and proliferation of guns in this country.
- hiatus 2y agoHow many school shootings occurred prior to the gun control act of 1968? Guns were even easier to acquire before that point.
- jimt1234 2y agoThis is misleading. Wooden-handled, six-shooter pistols and pump-action rifles were easy to get back then - true, but high capacity, semi-automatics were definitely not easy to obtain. I grew up in the Midwest back then, probably the most gun friendly state besides Texas; people generally recognized that some guns should be available only to the military.
- hiatus 2y agoI appreciate the color but AR-15s were available for civilian purchase in 1963, though most school shootings are perpetrated with hand guns. [1] Even then, it seems it would be better to regulate large capacity magazines than any specific firearm. The comment to which I replied was decrying the proliferation of guns in general, not high capacity magazines. [1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2812306 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
- js4ever 2y agoIt seems the only thing this guy blowup was himself! "Spafford lost three fingers in 2021 while apparently working on an explosive device"
- marvin-hansen 2y agoWhat was the crime here besides illegal possession of a firearm? - storing explosives - mostly legal. - self build bombs? There weren't used, so hard to make a case. - Spreading misinformation? AFAIk, that's protected under the first amendment unless you really cause tangible damage i.e. Infowars style One way I can think a case can be made is by portraying the guy as a danger to public safety. In Europe, that would warrant a psychiatrist making an assessment for the court. In the US where people posses more firearms than the total population, I am not so sure of that argument survives in court. And then there is the ancient constitutional right to bear arms... To be clear, I totally support the FBI locking up an apparent maniac before he goes insane and starts using his bombs. I'm just pointing out that the US legal system doesn't seem to be well equiped for those cases. For example, the guy who ran the FPSRusia YouTube channel from Georgia, US, was sitting on well over a quarter million worth of firearms and even owned a small tank (!). Apparently that is also legal in the US. Yet authorities only took action when somebody died on his property in what seemed to have been a shooting accident. Let responsible people have a gun or two given these are legal, have passed background check and did proper safety training, but please keep disarming the apparent crazy ones. Nobody can make a sane case why a single person needs a dozen pipe bombs in a backpack or dozens of automatic firearms and a tank.
- wyldfire 2y ago> Spreading misinformation? AFAIk, that's protected under the first amendment unless you really cause tangible damage i.e. Infowars style Jones is a horrible person but committed no crimes. He wasn't taken to criminal court by the people, he was sued by the victims of his defamation.
- pfdietz 2y agoI'm surprised there aren't more defamation lawsuits on the internet. I've thought it could be a moneymaker for social media firms to automate defamation shakedowns, just like copyright trolls automate copyright shakedowns. Help those defamed find and the messages and send out "Pay $N thousand and this defamation lawsuit goes away now" messages. Back up some of the lawsuits with $$$ to show the threat is real.
- slavboj 2y agoThe only thing he is actually charged with is possession of a short barreled rifle. The prosecutor's documents do not even have photographs of the portion of the firearm that would establish whether it was configured as a "rifle" - it is perfectly legal under federal law to possess an AR style pistol with a naked buffer tube or a pistol brace, without a tax stamp. In the one photograph they do have of this firearm, they intentionally crop it so that it is not possible to evaluate.
- strathmeyer 2y agoOK but what about all the dangerous explosives and the intent to murder innocent people?
- giantg2 2y agoThat's the question - why isn't he charged with those more blatant infractions. Maybe he will be, but just hasn't yet.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat's not uncommon; Luigi Mangione was first charged with having the unpermitted handgun and fake IDs. They want enough to hold and investigate further initially; they'll have taken all the bombs.
- ncr100 2y ago"Soon": Get the process going, ankle monitor strapped and movement of suspect restricted, continue the law enforcement investigation, and make additional charges if violations are identified.
- declan_roberts 2y agoIt seems to me like they busted an eccentric collector. Men love this kind of stuff. If TNT was legal to own there would probably be a collector for it.
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- d883kd8 2y agoThe NFA has faced multiple post-Bruen challenges, particularly regarding short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and suppressors. A key case was United States v. Dalton in Nevada, where the court found SBR restrictions unconstitutional based on lack of historical analogues. Cases like United States v. Price question the NFA's tax requirements and registration scheme through Bruen's historical tradition test. The core challenge is demonstrating historical analogues for regulating specific firearm features from 1791 or 1868, as required by Bruen. Registration and taxation of firearms largely emerged in the early 20th century, making historical analogues difficult to establish for much of the NFA's framework. However, lower courts remain split on these challenges, and the Supreme Court hasn't directly addressed NFA provisions post-Bruen. This area of law continues to evolve rapidly.
- declan_roberts 2y agoIt's incredible that the FBI releases this huge presser despite the arrest being peaceful and the guy only being charged with possession of short barrel rifle. Meanwhile somebody crosses the border in 6,500 lb truck and 2 days later rams it into a crowd of people. The FBI is addicted to PR arrests but seems incapable of stopping actual terror attacks.
- potato3732842 2y agoBased on the ratio of "stuff found" to "evidince of extremist beliefs and a willingness to act" it sounds like the feds just rolled up on some weirdo DIY explosives enthusiast. I'm more worried about the guy with a lot of writing and messages and only a couple bombs.
- tw04 2y agoYes, “weirdo diy explosive enthusiasts” frequently talk about political violence and use pictures of presidential candidates for target practice and partake in anti government groups. If the guy just had a thing for blowing stuff up, you might have a point. But the guy pretty clearly has more going on than just liking explosives.
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- scoofy 2y agoI think there are plenty of folks, like myself, that are pro-gun but anti-assault rifle, or at least anti- guns-in-public-life. There is a basis for the second amendment, and that is a defense against tyranny, but that means we're talking about civil war levels of resistance. In that scenario, I think it really doesn't matter whether you're using an AR-15 or a M1 Garand, because there will need to be literally millions of people with these weapons. I think many of us quietly support gun rights for the type of weapon that can be used in a civil war in mass, but can also be opposed to the type of weapon that supports a high capacity magazine that lets one nutjob kill dozens and dozens of people without ever having to reload or giving people a chance to flee. I also would prefer to live in a society where guns need to be locked and separated from the ammo, so that anyone with a visible gun in public can be immediately detained.
- billsmithaustin 2y agoHe probably started out wanting to make just one pipe bomb but you know how it is, you get a great discount if you buy the ingredients in bulk. So he made his pipe bomb and then he had all these leftover ingredients just taking up space in his closet. And so he went ahead and made another 149 pipe bombs.
- smallmancontrov 2y agoCould be, or maybe they had a really good discount at the pipe bomb store and he'd basically be losing money if he didn't buy at least 150 pipe bombs.
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- fasa99 2y ago“We had two barrels of fertilizer, seventy-five pellets of gunpowder, five sheets of high powered C4, a salt shaker half full of nitro, and a whole galaxy of 50 cals, buckshot, slugs, tracers... and also a quart of kerosene, a quart of diesel, a case of grenades, a kilo of raw uranium and two dozen rockets. Not that we needed all that for self defense, but once you get locked into a serious explosives collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” -Osama Bin Laden
- IYasha 2y agoWhat a freaking snitch! That rat of a neighbor.