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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Not that I want this douchenozzele better armed, but his stockpile highlighted in red font looked a little odd to me.
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Plenty of folks out there overbuy guns and underbuy ammo (and training). They like the thrill of accumulating new guns, but only shoot infrequently. There are even forum members here - on a gun forum - who haven't shot their guns in years and likely have little ammo on hand, so you can imagine what that means for the rest of the population. In addition, the average gun owner doesn't buy ammo in bulk or have stockpiles of thousands or tens of thousands of rounds. They might have a few boxes on hand, but it's common for folks to merely buy a box or two on their way to the range (or at the range), and then shoot those boxes. Every time there's a run on ammo (elections, Covid, etc.), I have friends hitting me up saying "I want to go to the range but can't find any ammo for sale and I'm out, can I buy some of yours..." As for the magazines, he had 87 guns, so 188 magazines is only a little more than 2 per gun. Many guns come from the factory with 2 and sometimes 3 mags already. So that seems about right for the number of guns he owned. | |||
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picked up an estate from a guy 5-6 yrs ago, he would buy a pistol, say a 1911, in the box or case, he was add a couple extra magazines with one round in each magazine, and a small plastic sleeve, if there were room, with the number of rounds a magazine would hold, every gun we bought from him with the factory case or box was like that https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
I was focused on the minuscule amount of ammo vs everything else: I've never had that mentality. 22 years ago, I bought my first gun after moving out of Commiefornia (i.e. all my money went to my mortgage so zero spare cash entire 3 years I lived there and the guns were neutered). I slowly grew my ammo stash of ammo by shooting 200 rounds at the range and buying 400 rounds on the way home from the range. Then, started buying ammo online 500 or 1000 rounds at a time. I had a nice amount of magazines, JHP, and FMJ before buying my 2nd gun. Of course, setting fire to your landlord's building on the edge of a residential area already showed poor judgement. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Seven years in prison? That's all? Should have received 30 to life. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
^^ Pretty short, but it's in the range of Texas Penal Code sentencing guidelines of 5 to 99 years in prison plus fine up to $10k. The firefighter injury raised it to a 1st degree felony, but without the injury it would've been a 2nd degree felony with range of 2 to 20 years. On top of that, he has to pay $3.58 million in restitution. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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"188 firearm magazines" - That is a lot of back issues of American Rifleman. Definitely a fire hazard. . | |||
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That twerp will never pay it. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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| I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not |
I definately have a addiction to magazines. And I blame the assault weapons ban for it. Paying 30 bucks a magazone for colt pre-bans made me that way. I probably have 200 ar and pistol magazines. My kids will have fun divying them up when I die!!! | |||
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Raptorman |
Any person that would just leave animals to die is a psychopath that needs severely brutal removal. I bet there's someone in that prison would tune him up daily if they had money put on there account. I guarantee he thinks he's done nothing wrong. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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| Ammoholic |
The magazine quantity looked reasonable until I saw the gun quantity. Not a shooter. The ammunition quantity is just ludicrous. | |||
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Tangent, but from the story, I live within a couple miles of this area, and don't recall this fire/event. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
Raypine Rd off I-45 feeder. Taquiria Arandas on corner and Wolfie's Sports Bar behind it. ABC 13's original story of fire from 2022.. Happened on Monday of Thanksgiving week 2022 so perhaps you were traveling. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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There was a time when I used to shoot 100-200 rounds of pistol ammo a week. To keep the costs down I reloaded 100-200 rounds per week. Now I shoot 4 Gun Skeet and my reloading bench has shotshell presses from 410 to 12 gauge. End result is lots of magazines and pistols but not a lot of handgun ammo made up ready to shoot. I think what we may have here is a complete Moron who was also a gun collector. Unfortunately he is also a vindictive asshole who blames his mistakes on others. Bottomline is I think it would be a good thing if he's locked up for Life. I've stopped counting. | |||
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A Grateful American |
The guns and such. really have little, if any, bearing to the story. Guy is a douchebag, pissy because he makes poor life choices and destroyed property, by arson, belonging to his landlord who evicted him for cause. That's the story. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
They have 100% bearing on the story being on Sigforum. I never would've posted the story if that paragraph had not caught my eye. Probably would've just texted the link to P250 as he's closest Sigforumite to the story. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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| A Grateful American |
I did not say the story did not belong on SIGforum. And my post had nothing to do with you or you posting it. I stated the guns and such have nothing to do with the person setting the fire. It is an irrelevant bit of information as would be; "Authorities also found five Grateful Dead Tie dyed T-shirts, 23 pairs of tennis shoes, 14 bars of soap, 351 toothpicks and 87 dead insects in various places around the house, including two scarab beatles." "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| Smarter than the average bear |
This may not be as ridiculous as it seems. Depending on the calibers of different guns. Say you have 100 different 9mm pistols. If you buy ammo at the range or on your way there, 1000 rounds isn't a terrible buffer when prices have been relatively reasonable and stable for several years now. You could say "that's only 10 rounds per gun", but it doesn't matter if they're all the same caliber. Don't get me wrong, I'm in the 1000s of rounds camp and have been for many years. Just pointing out the logical fallacy. | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
DOJ's press release had two pertinent additional detail the local news didn't release:
Sounds like he designed a delayed ignition device to give them the dining at restaurant alibi. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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