Agents found 11 military-style machine guns, 133 handguns, 37 rifles, 60 assault rifles, and 7 shotguns in the man's home, authorities said.
  • 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.
  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • NotAFuckingBot@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.)

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        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

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            1·
            9 months ago

            Fair, I will tell the feds, my understanding of how machine guns work is rudimentary at best and my machining skills are laughable in the handful of places they exist. It would be a several year process to learn to make them. I just think it would be even harder to buy one

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      My connection to the black market is an ex friend who I think is a psychopath but who’s otherwise fun to party with.

      He want to prison for killing a guy, and after he got out was when I started hearing about opportunities to drive a trunkful of cocaine across the country and things like that.

      What I’m saying is I think the place those deals get made — like let’s buy 100 M-16s instead of let’s buy ten doses of MDMa — happen in prison.