Posted on 10/27/2015 9:06:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono
PAGELAND, S.C., - Authorities in South Carolina said they arrested a man found to be in possession of more than 7,000 stolen guns and up to 500 stolen chainsaws.
Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks said Brent Nicholson, 51, was being served a subpoena Friday on charges of trafficking opium and heroin and the deputies visiting the home made note of the man's arsenal.
Deputies returned the following day and cleared the home and a warehouse on the Pageland-area property of between 7,000 and 10,000 guns.
Authorities said they also seized other items including up to 500 chainsaws, hunting crossbows, four-wheelers and taxidermy supplies.
Brooks said 99 percent of the seized items are believed to be stolen property.
He said Nicholson didn't appear to have been planning anything sinister with his weapons.
"(He) looks like a gun hoarder to be honest with you," Brooks told WBTV.
"There's no evidence that he even used them," the sheriff told The Charlotte Observer. "There's no evidence that he was selling them -- he just wanted them. His house looked like that hoarders program on TV."
You prepare for the zombie apocalypse your way and I’ll prepare my way.
Naw, he was merely cleaning the rivers after so many FR boating accidents.
When is the police auction?
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Maybe guns and chainsaws are better than currency or gold, and hold their value?
I do have to wonder how someone comes into possession of so many stolen guns and chain saws.
Do you run an ad in the paper or something?
stealing guns has got to be the most dangerous way ever to make a living, next to robbing drug dealers.
The victims are, by definition, armed.
I need one more gun. Then I will finally be happy.
Maybe he sold the opium and heroin to pay for all the guns.
Because it doesn’t look as if he sold any guns.
So he collected guns and tools?
Well, if the guns were reported stolen shouldn’t the authorities make every effort to return the stolen items to the rightful owners regardless of what the items may be?..... Just askin’.
Seized guns in my county in NC aren’t auctioned, the sheriff is ordered by judiciary to destroy them. I was in his office on the day he was heading out to do it once. He was showing my husband and me some antique and expensive ones that he regretted having to destroy.
But, now it's time for withdrawals. He's probably not too comfortable today.
Most likely his customers were committing the burglaries, and trading the guns, etc., for the opium and heroin.
So, the guy had a chain saw fetish. I could think of worse things!!!
He’s just a redneck who knows you can never have too many guns and tools (like me).
Mossberg 500 Stihl ChainsawHe must have been helping getting stolen guns off the street.
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