I would guess driving around the back roads at night. Likely be a witness to crimes or a victim.
Or bootlegging.
All I know is you shouldn’t trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer.
This was in broad daylight. But yes to the reasons given.
One of the conspirators already flipped. Various charges carry 5 to 20 year prison sentences.
"According to the 26-count indictment, Hall and Sawyer were Chiefs of Police in Coats, North Carolina and Ray, North Dakota, respectively. Sullivan was the owner and operator of Trident, LLC, located in Gambrills, Maryland, and was also an Intelligence Analyst with the Department of Homeland Security Investigations. Sullivan and Trident were Federal Firearms Licensees (“FFLs”) and Special Occupational Taxpayers (“SOTs”), which allowed them, in certain circumstances, to possess, import, manufacture, and deal in fully automatic firearms (machineguns) and other regulated firearms. Tafoya and Vickers owned and operated firearms related businesses in New Mexico and North Carolina and were also FFLs and SOTs.
The indictment alleges that, beginning in at least June 2018 through at least March 2021, the defendants conspired to acquire machineguns and/or other restricted firearms, such as short-barreled rifles, by falsely representing that the firearms would be used for demonstration to law enforcement agencies, including the Coats Police Department and the Ray Police Department. The indictment further alleges that Hall, Sawyer, and other conspirators signed law letters with no expectation that the weapons would ever be demonstrated to their respective law enforcement agencies."
Truly stupid.
Should this go in the “stupid hammer news” thread?
Well, robbing a gun store with a hammer certainly pings my parameters for “stupid”.
The variations of, “bringing a ____ to a gunfight” just keep piling on.
I think that was a suicide. A gun store in the early afternoon on a Sunday?
That’s got to be one of their busiest times in a typical week.
Reminds me of one of the stories in the other thread a while ago of a guy who tried to attack someone holding a gun with a brick, got shot, and then got back up and tried to do it again. And got shot again.
I don’t think that the life insurance company is going to pay that claim.
There is apparently an active shooter situation in Lewiston, Maine. Some guy with a rifle at a bowling alley, then a restaurant and a Walmart distribution center. My last job in Maine was in Lewiston. It is the second largest city in Maine, but that’s not saying much. To me it was like a main street area with every fast food restaurant you could think of, about three dozen churches and a sprawl of suburbia.
Ironically, I was joking with my mom the other day that all the action happens on the west coast, “why there have been two shootings within five blocks of me this week alone.”
This is the first one of these that I hit this close to home, so I guess I’m in the club now, sort of.
At least 16 dead.
I’m seeing reports of 22 dead.
Edit … I’ve also seen a name floated all over Twitter, but who knows if that’s accurate at all.
My wife went to Bates, but it doesn’t look like there’s any connection to the college so far. She’s a little shook up about the news.
From ABC News:
The suspect has a history of military service and is a firearms instructor
The part about being a firearms instructor seems to be inaccurate. What does appear to be the case is that his military service was somewhat problematic. He threatened а shoot-em-up at the base and was taken to a facility for mental evaluation.
Which presents a problem for the gundamentalists. Taking guns away from crazy people: who gets to decide what is a qualifying mental defect? Why, afer ya knows it, they’ll be a-callin’ me crazy just onacuzza I has fifty guns in my basement.
It’s always a bunch of hand wringing about mental health after these murders, but do you think the hand wringers want to do anything about healthcare let alone mental healthcare?
… but still a dirt floor that floods…
Maine apparently has a “yellow flag” law that allows firearms to be taken away from unstable individuals.
It would appear that NYSP do not talk to those hick down-easters in Maine.