Be careful what you say in youtube comments when you're talking about a snowflake governor

https://www.wdrb.com/news/kent...c7-3c946c0269f5.html


LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Kentucky man who had a stockpile of weapons at his home with threatening Kentucky’s governor and state police on social media.

The man, 25-year-old Jeremiah Wooley, apparently made the threats in reference to a social media post about state troopers going to a Kentucky church to enforce social distancing, according to court documents filed in the federal case.

State police arrested Wooley at his home in Kevil last week and charged him with making threats against the governor and state police under a false name. The U.S. Attorney's office in Louisville announced those charges and a federal firearms charge against Wooley on Tuesday.

Investigators found about a dozen firearms at Wooley’s home, including what federal agents described as “assault-style rifles," a .50-caliber rifle and a bucket of 50 hand grenades that were either inert or were made as novelty items. Police said the house also had components to assemble the grenades, including black powder.

Federal court files said Wooley made the social media posts in mid-April. According to an affidavit by an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Wooley was responding to a YouTube video posted on Facebook about state police visiting a Kentucky church to enforce social distancing practices. Beshear has banned mass gatherings, including in-person church services in the state, though that ban is being lifted later this month.

A person who identified himself as “Nick Sample” replied to the post with threats against Beshear and state police, saying “I would shoot them ... in their face," according to court records. Later, the same person wrote, “Anybody think about maybe going and visiting the governor at his house.”

Investigators traced the Facebook account through an IP address to Wooley's home in Kevil. State police arrested him there on April 29 on a charge of terroristic threatening. He had two handguns on him at the time of the arrest. Wooley was listed as being held in McCracken County Jail on Tuesday, according to online records.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Louisville said Wooley is also facing a federal charge of possessing an unregistered firearm, which carries a maximum 10-year sentence.

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Investigators traced the Facebook account through an IP address to Wooley's home in Kevil.

Should have had a vpn

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The U.S. Attorney’s office in Louisville said Wooley is also facing a federal charge of possessing an unregistered firearm, which carries a maximum 10-year sentence.

What?

Sounds like they found an unregistered NFA firearm, like a SBR/SBS/AOW.

Or the media got it wrong, and the charge is relating not to a firearm but to the grenades, which are registered as "Destructive Devices" under the NFA.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
Sounds like they found an unregistered NFA firearm, like a SBR/SBS/AOW.

Or the media got it wrong, and the charge is relating not to a firearm but to the grenades, which are registered as "Destructive Devices" under the NFA.

Ah.

Thanks.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:


Or the media got it wrong, and the charge is relating not to a firearm but to the grenades, which are registered as "Destructive Devices" under the NFA.

Question: The article says they were "inert or made as novelty items". Would those still be illegal?

Not as-is. But he may have taken steps to turn them into functional grenades, with fuses and explosive components, as the news story implies:

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Police said the house also had components to assemble the grenades

So don't worry... your "complaint department - take a number" inert grenade on your desk should be fine, radioman.

I just Googled it and a violation of the NFA is a 10 year Felony. Also 10,000 dollars for each "weapon" and naturally no guns for life. So, some dumb knucklehead who couldn't keep his yap shut is facing 10 years of dining on our dime, room and board on our dime, and $ 500,000.00 in fines all because he though it would be cool to make up a real hand grenade. How much ya wanna bet this fool doesn't have the money to pay that fine.

Actually, he's probably lucky. Because with Black Powder any tiny spark at all while he's screwing the head on the grenade means he'd get a belly full of grenade. I suggest that anyone this foolish get nothing but MRE's for his entire prison sentence.

We seldom catch the smart ones.

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“I would shoot them ... in their face," “Anybody think about maybe going and visiting the governor at his house.”

Hope he gets a good attorney. If what is quoted is accurate, he's not threatening anybody.

Kentucky Man still aint got shit on Florida Man.

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Originally posted by kidcop:
We seldom catch the smart ones.

I was told that by Lt. Col. JAG in the Army.

Rarely, if ever do the media get things correct. And the press releases rarely release all the facts.

Sometimes, whether we like the government or not, the charges are just. This also isn't his first rodeo.

I bet he's been kicked out of Woolworth's and Piggly Wiggly both.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
I bet he's been kicked out of Woolworth's and Piggly Wiggly both.

Just the one, or the whole chain?

To hear Mary Jo tell it, it's gone International.