White Supremacist Felon Caught With 18 Guns, 45,000 Bullets And A List Of Black & Jewish Leaders

[onehandle]

Federal agents were tracking Ohio resident Richard Schmidt’s imports of counterfeit sports jerseys when they stumbled upon his arsenal of 18 guns, more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, and bulletproof body armor. Besides the arsenal, he had lists of Jewish and black leaders in Detroit, MI. He is also an ex-felon who killed a Hispanic man and wounded two others 24 years ago.

Yet before December, no one even noticed that Schmidt, 47, was amassing weapons illegally, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Instead, federal investigators zeroed in on his sports memorabilia shop around September 2011, tracking his shipments of knock-off jerseys from China for over a year before they discovered the cache of firearms.

Schmidt plead guilty to federal gun charges and the counterfeit racket last month, and will be sentenced in October. But many connected to the crime are still scratching their heads over how an ex-felon with ties to white supremacist groups was able to get his hands on so many guns.

“I can’t tell you how he got all those guns and ammunition,” U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach told the Plain Dealer. “It’s not that I won’t tell you; it’s that I can’t. This is somebody who should never have had one gun, one bullet. But he had an entire arsenal.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/30/2556291/neo-nazi-felon-stockpiling-guns

[gopiscrap]

1. OMG

[Jefferson23]

2. So they got lucky, this time. The NRA thanks you, I'm sure. n/t

[Politicalboi]

3. So he murdered a Hispanic man 24 years ago

Schmidt is technically banned from possessing a gun for the rest of his life. In 1989, he pulled a gun on three men during a traffic argument, killing one man and wounding the other two. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served 12 years in prison.

12 short years for killing someone that wasn't breaking into his home, but over a traffic dispute. Probably driving while brown. And this POS had a sports memorabilia shop.

[kelliekat44]

7. The real question is why is he not still in jail? He murdered someone. nt

[cstanleytech]

10. Umm going to go out on a limb and say he is out of jail because he served his sentence?

Though it would appear they go the length of time he needed wrong.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Sensible gun laws is all we ask for and it seems too much. This is one time a good guy

With a gun is not the case, I will be waiting for the gun nuts to pay for his defense.

[NutmegYankee]

9. He was barred from owning even one gun by law since he was a felon.

That is a sensible gun law. It appears he didn't give a damn.

[dembotoz]

5. hope they can track some of the purchase--someones got some splianing to do.....

[BootinUp]

6. Doesn't surprise me. And it shouldn't be hard

for any adult to grasp how this could happen.

[Rebellious Republican]

8. Wow, those damn Floridians, I mean Texans, wait I mean southerners.....

Oops my bad, happened in the north, never mind nothing to see here.