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40 illegal assault rifles, grenade launcher seized in Kingsburg [ CA ]
KFSN-TV ^ | September 30, 2011

Posted on 09/29/2011 10:31:30 PM PDT by george76

FRESNO, Calif. -- A big bust by Valley law enforcement agents took dozens of illegal assault weapons off the streets. Officers arrested Christopher Haga after they raided his home in Kingsburg and his business in Parlier.

Fresno area police officers seized forty "military-type" assault weapons during the raid. Investigators first thought they may be connected to a Southern California military base. They ruled that out after the raid but they're still not sure where the guns came from.

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Investigators say the most shocking discovery came when they found a grenade launcher and dozens of magazines and ammunition inside Haga's home.

"For the life of me, I can't understand why an individual would need a grenade launcher

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; fastandfurious
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1 posted on 09/29/2011 10:31:35 PM PDT by george76
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Haga is charged with 40 counts of possessing illegal assault rifles and could face federal charges.

And probably not a one of them was full auto. Just violated CA's AWB.

2 posted on 09/29/2011 10:42:02 PM PDT by umgud
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Haga is charged with 40 counts of possessing illegal assault rifles and could face federal charges. He was released from Fresno County jail early Thursday morning due to overcrowding.

Glad it wasn't anything serious enough to hold him on...and I like the part in the article that basically implied that the raid was because he was showing a non-illegal firearm to somebody in his business. But, we got them guns off the street.
3 posted on 09/29/2011 10:43:40 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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Well, now I have grenade launcher envy.


4 posted on 09/29/2011 10:46:38 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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"...but they're still not sure where the guns came from."

Check the serial numbers. I bet they belong to Eric Holder.
5 posted on 09/29/2011 10:46:58 PM PDT by Zarro (Jail Congress)
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grenade launchers are fun as hell! that alone makes it worth needing.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 10:49:51 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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Didn’t they recently raid a gun shop in New Mexico?


7 posted on 09/29/2011 10:56:41 PM PDT by Irenic
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“...but they’re still not sure where the guns came from.”
Check the serial numbers. I bet they belong to Eric Holder.

Wouldn’t that be interesting !
Only 1959 more weapons to go ....

Grenade laucher envy ~ obviously used to hunt woodchucks !


8 posted on 09/29/2011 10:57:18 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Move Along ,... Nothing to see here ...)
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Some described Haga as an outstanding citizen and great father. They are puzzled as to why Haga would need all those illegal arms.

I guess these dopes haven't taken note to who is running the country.


9 posted on 09/29/2011 10:57:18 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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The 'grenade launcher' will turn out to be a 37mm flare launcher look-alike. That's my bet.

They're legal in California.

10 posted on 09/29/2011 11:15:16 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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>>> “For the life of me, I can’t understand why an individual would need a grenade launcher

Sometimes the garage door sticks. Then you’re prepared.


11 posted on 09/29/2011 11:20:07 PM PDT by tlb
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“For the life of me, I can’t understand why an individual would need a grenade launcher”

I’m going to take a really wild guess at this and say,

To launch grenades!


12 posted on 09/29/2011 11:24:39 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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law enforcement agents took dozens of illegal assault weapons off the streets. Officers arrested Christopher Haga after they raided his home

If they were on the streets, why did they raid the mans home?

13 posted on 09/29/2011 11:41:07 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Grenade launchers may be illegal in CA, but they're not illegal under federal law. I can't recall if they're class III or just a tax stamp item, but you can buy them if you can afford them.

The high explosive grenades are another story however. Smoke, flares etc. are allowed, but (obviously) they'd never let us go around blasting-off 40mm grenades.

Too bad, grenades would be great fun on the acreage I bought.

14 posted on 09/29/2011 11:45:12 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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Exactly. Looks cool but it ain’t no M203.


15 posted on 09/29/2011 11:58:36 PM PDT by MadJack ("Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." (Afghan proverb))
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I have a potato gun. Does that count?


16 posted on 09/30/2011 12:10:38 AM PDT by trailboss800
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If you live in CA, probably...yes.


17 posted on 09/30/2011 1:25:31 AM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Mr B has a new cousin on the way!)
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It’s good that he wasn’t islamic. He would have had to plan and start to carry out some terrorist attack before they’d get involved with him.
But thanks to the communist government of California, some type legal gun selling was stopped.


18 posted on 09/30/2011 1:26:20 AM PDT by lephantom
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>""For the life of me, I can't understand why an individual would need a grenade launcher"

Spoken by someone that obviously has never fired one!

So we should arrest others for your lack of understanding?


Socialists have reading disabilities. They see abortion rights in the first amendment, and can't seem to see the words NOT BE INFRINGED in the second. They also are unable to comprehend the second word in Nazi.

19 posted on 09/30/2011 1:44:30 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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“For the life of me, I can’t understand why an individual would need a grenade launcher”

Would be very effective on a covey of quail.


20 posted on 09/30/2011 2:46:42 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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