Posted on 01/24/2009 4:03:32 PM PST by An Old Man
The military weaponry discovered in a storage locker in Bellevue rented by Ronald L. Struve included 7.5 pounds of the highly dangerous C-4 plastic explosives, federal authorities confirmed Friday. Additional weapons were later found in Spokane.
The agents also searched a stored vehicle and two rental units at 2814 N. Napa St. in Spokane leased by Struve, court records obtained Friday show. At the storage units, agents seized 21 items, including seven machine guns, a Russian sniper rifle, an AK-47 assault rifle, and a host of machine gun parts that are illegal to own without proper federal licenses.
Items subsequently seized by federal agents in Seattle included 37 machines guns, two grenade launchers, 54 grenades and the C-4 explosive, court documents say.
I don't know where to begin on this one.
Read the story for yourself and make a note of the name of defendants lawyer. Just in case you need help like his in the future.
Every American home should have a similar arsenal.
I said “American” because I don’t regard leftists, socialists, muslims, llegal aliens, and most Democrats as “Americans”.
One of the questions that I always ask but never seem to get an adequate answer to, is where does the money come from that enables someone to amass such an arsenal and maintain multiple rental units to store them etc. It can’t be cheap.
Just thinking about it, a burst of 3 followed by aburst of 4 would be doggone expensive!
Still, it's interesting that we can still find private individuals preparing to do stuff the government is now afraid to do ~ like DEFEND us from foreign invaders.
I wonder if the "Russian sniper rifle" is anything like my 75 year old Mosin Nagant?
Here's hoping this guy is sane and that the case gets turned into a second amendment case and can be used to throw out some very bad laws.
Notice that in this article they don't emphasize that they also found "anti-government literature" - which was mentioned in an earlier piece on this subject. Could it be that somebody explained to the ATF that they may feel The Federalist Papers may be subversive but it doesn't pay to say so?
If you are going to store illegal stuff in a public storage, it might be a good idea to keep your rental payments current.
Some people are just stuck on stupid.
Wow!
Note that in the article it was inferred that this was the cause of his problem with the feds. He neglected to pay the rent on the storage. Then The person who bought the contents of the locker at auction had second thoughts about his newly acquired assets, and called the cops.
Story sounds a little fishy to me.
Then again, I don’t put it past some to stage media events such as this to increase fear of guns and support for gun control, which we know is coming.
BTW, what is it that the feddies fear so much that makes them want to disarm all civilians?
If that had been me I'd still be doing the happy dance and planning on going way out into the country to do some testing. Say don't some of those guns look like those German submachine guns from WWII?
Two MP40s. Also note the BAR. All still lethal but this looks almost more like some military history buff's collection than something a would be revolutionary would own.
This is pretty much the way those people over in Washington state live.
BTW, what is it that the feddies fear so much that makes them want to disarm all civilians?
Could it possibly be something like this?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Man, there’s some very valuable stuff there. Or at least it would be if registered. Actually, it looks like a whole lot of Vietnam bring-backs.
It's resting.
I'm sure it's tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
The full-auto stuff is illegal in WA. Were the “machine guns” for real or were they the semi-auto lookalikes
being peddled by OOW?
Its not dead, its just sleeping.
Its not dead, its just sleeping.
Kind of what I thought. What would they do to me if they found out I had a stash of Gerand ammo?
He could be charged for the parrots.
I am very pro 2nd Amendment but this guy took things too far. We would possibly be reading about a tragedy if the storage unit had caught on fire. I think you can just burn C4 and nothing happens but with the list of other explosives this guy had (think it was the Seattle paper) I would not want to test the theory.
Stuff like this should be secured as well. Would not want a meth addict to get hold of this stuff after burglarizing a storage unit.
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