This whole story reeks. It is an old Filipino guy who was mouthing off about not liking muslims, and the only charge against him is attempting to buy a silencer. My guess is that the threat to muslims from this guy is way overblown, just to promote the “muslims as innocent victims” BS.
You’re, no doubt, right on the money.
Actually, if you read the criminal complaint, this sounds pretty much on the level.
The old guy is dying from kidney failure, and it sounds like he may have been serious about taking some muslims with him.
He told the undercover guy a story about how he shot an “asshole” back in the Philippines, and the one he shot “straightened up” after surviving the gunshot.
Mass shooting seems a plausible inference about his plans to me.