[SoldierMedic]

For discussion’s sake alone, I’d like to know at what point they crossed it.

Personally, I view that his group past a certain line when it started to accrue such a heavy arsenal. Given that this group is believed to be anti-government and violent, one can believe that things were coming to a boiling point.

During searches, agents recovered 130 grenades, a grenade launcher, a machine gun, a short-barreled shotgun, two silencers, 2,500 rounds of ammunition, explosive components, about 70 improvised explosive devices, 100 marijuana plants and commercial fireworks at the four locations. Agents said the men were using powder from the fireworks to fill the grenades.

They were setting up for something, something that probably wouldn't have been good.

[Sleeping Beauty]

The look like a bunch of home boys to me -- Ruby Ridge types.

This photo made available by the Shelby County (Ala.,) Sheriff's office shows Raymond Kirk Dillard, 46, one of six men arrested by Federal and state agents who seized an arsenal of homemade hand grenades and firearms in raids Thursday, April 26, 2007. The men, members of the self-styled "Alabama Free Militia," had no apparent plans to use the weapons, but the leader was described as a federal fugitive, federal authorities said. Dillard was also known as Jeff Osborne. (AP Photo/Shelby County Sheriff's Office)

[El Gato]

They were setting up for something, something that probably wouldn't have been good.

More likely they just like things that go Boom. They'd be better advised to get a muzzle loading cannon. Those really go boom, and don't excite the BATFE nearly so much.