I doubt that. I’ll wager 40 quatloos that the guns are mostly crap and they are mostly handguns. Even a quality handgun won’t set you back a grand, unless you race it up.
I bet you’re right.
But that’s even MORE waste of money. Why buy crap guns? Good thing criminals are generally stupid.
And broke.
Do you all think the authorities are inflating the number? Because 1000 guns! I don’t have 1000 of anything, and I have a lot of stuff! Where would they keep them? That would be like 150 guns in each room of my house! Piles of guns. These guys get more stupid the more I think about it!
Not even books?
I have several thousand books.
Probably only in the high multi-hundreds. Maybe 5-700. To be fair, I’ve never counted.
Are they leather bound?
I have, maybe, 10 physical copies of books nowadays (and more in storage), but I live in a trailer and I don’t have a lot of space. Hundreds of e-books, though, possibly more.
I bought this house specifically because it had over 40 feet of uninterrupted wall space. Said 40+ feet now has built-in bookcases stuffed with books.
Alas, no. I’d never be able to own this many if I were paying leather bound costs for each and that assumes they were ever available that way. A significant percentage is out of print. (I often haunt used bookstores.)
But back to the topic of the thread, or most recent topic … the dudes had more than 1000 firearms? Where did they PUT them all? At least with books it’s fairly easy to store them, there’s not a lot of variation in size and none in shape. Firearms, though, are like the kids who like Armour hot dogs. Lots and lots of gun safes? Pegboards and hooks? Calder mobiles? The mind boggles. (I suppose the details are in the story, but right now it’s more fun to speculate.)
Built into the walls would have been my style choice.
More specifics, from a Dayton news station, emphasis added by me:
Tactical teams and armored vehicles from various law enforcement agencies responded as the brothers barricaded at the compound, which is comprised of three houses and several outbuildings, the sheriff’s office said.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation said agents seized more than 1,000 firearms, primarily sporting shotguns and hunting caliber rifles, and over 140,000 rounds of ammunition from the property. Most of the ammunition is target ammunition for trapshooting.
Three houses and several outbuildings will be plenty of storage space, even if they’re on the small side. Especially if it was only the two of them in residence.
People are nuts, you know?
“Some people juggle geese!”
–Hoban Washburn, Firefly
So, we’re back into the multi-hundred thousands of $$, since I suppose even a cheap shotgun/hunting rifle is going to be >$200.
Oh for sure. Looked up, right now shotguns at Bass Pro start at $150 used, $200 new.
Yep. I retract my previous guess as to what the weapons were. These guys were even bigger doofi than I thought.
Putting this here since we don’t have a thread for strange gun news:
Unclear whether that was a suicide, or just stupid. Tragic loss of life either way.
Florida toddler kills himself with unlocked gun.
This nut
pled guilty yesterday.
The stupidity here, aside from believing in false flags, is that the felon had the weapon in the first place.
One-year-old shoots self in head, dies.
Well-regulated militia, my ass. They’d be securing their weapons properly if they were.