Gwion wrote:Band wagon: "we are all so hard done by as shooters"
Pitch fork: "the cops and media can't do their job right: if they'd just listen to me, everything would be perfect"
Hung up on detail: "they don't know how many rounds I need for shooting (insert ancient history here)", "they think books on snipers are bad but look at my list of bang bang books"
Nope... that's not you at all.....
The cops actually have actually done their job here and you are crapping on about how they could have done it sooner if they had left you alone....
JTFC!
Isn't the major question here: "how are they going to investigate the source of all these illicit firearms and prevent some other nutter amassing a similar cashe?"
Nope. It's: "why do they think someone obsessed with terrorism, security protocols and sniper tactics is potentially NQR?"
Where did I say anything about shooters being hard done by?
Where did I say anything about the Police not having done their job, and with a good result, or anything about listening to me about anything? Was I even part of whatever conversation you were having?
Do you agree with the authorities that we shooters only need twenty rounds of ammo?
Or that we should all be locked up for possessing freely-available books?
These are the two points in the beat-up that stand out to me. Ammo limits are a genuine threat to all firearm owners, and people have already been charged with possessing too much ammo. And nobody should ever be targeted because of what they choose to read.
I don't even understand the next bit. When did the Police bother me at all, and how would they have produced this result earlier than they have?
Did you read the articles at all? It started out being reported as a haul of 200 illegal firearms being seized, We now understand it's a couple of rifles and some handguns, the rest of the "arms cache" is essentially a collection of toys, not weapons.
You can draw that bow if you wish but I have no interest in how they're going to investigate the source of half-a-dozen illegal firearms that probably haven't even been used for criminal activity. He may well have owned these firearms for decades illegally and never used them criminally at all. SKS rifles were perfectly legal before '96, not even restricted, and I believe not even registered in some states.
We all know illegal firearms exist and are readily available to those that want them, that is never going to change regardless of how many resources the Police throw at the problem. I never asked any question about his book collection having any bearing on his being targeted by Police. Unless he has books that are essentially "underground" rather than available in any bookshop you care to peruse I don't see any relevance here at all.