Thousands of guns seized from home, warehouse in S.C.

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks tells CBS affiliate WBTV that deputies seized more than 7,000 guns from the property near Pageland, and that he believes the vast majority were stolen. The guns filled up a tractor-trailer.

Brooks told the station that the guns and ammunition filled multiple tractor trailers.

The weapons were discovered Friday when authorities brought a subpoena to the house. Authorities say a man living there had been arrested previously on drug charges in North Carolina and faces charges related to stolen property.

The sheriff said the suspect appears to have been hoarding the guns, most of which were hunting rifles or shotguns, and there's no evidence he sold any.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pageland-south-carolina-thousands-of-guns-seized-from-home-warehouse/

[Ned Flanders]

1. He must be part of a well regulated militia, NOT (n/t)

[LiberalArkie]

14. Hell with that many weapons, he WAS the militia.

[Electric Monk]

2. You can never have enough of something you don't really need

nt

[Eugene]

3. "His house looked like that hoarders program on TV."

Source: Charlotte Observer

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Pageland man arrested after authorities find thousands of guns piled at home

BY DAVID PERLMUTT

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Deputies also found hunting crossbows; ammunition; taxidermed deer, elk and alligator heads; hunting mounts; tools; air compressors and more than 500 chainsaws – most of it, Brooks said, stolen. There was “so much stuff” that by 3 p.m. Saturday authorities had filled four 40-foot tractor-trailers and taken it to an armory near the sheriff’s office in Chesterfield where the thousands of items will be processed.

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The sheriff said many of the guns looked like they’d been stored for years.

“There’s no evidence that he even used them,” Brooks said. “There’s no evidence that he was selling them – he just wanted them. His house looked like that hoarders program on TV.”

The sheriff said Nicholson may have stolen some of the merchandise, but he likely bought most of it from other thieves. “They steal this stuff from homes, or hunting lodges or cabins, and sell it for $100 a pistol,” he said.

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Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article41313024.html

[woodsprite]

5. Sounds like he was trying to supply his own personal Cabellas. n/t

[JDPriestly]

12. Maybe it was his own version of gun control -- keeping the guns out of the hands of the criminals.

Not a bad idea if you think about it that way.

I'M JOKING OF COURSE. IT DO NOT THINK THAT IS WHAT HE WAS DOING -- BUT it's an idea.

[Demeter]

6. What a find for a private little army!

We should be grateful he was only into hoarding, not insurrection.

[onehandle]

7. Melt them down. nt

[hack89]

8. Good idea.

used guns hurt gun manufacturers profits. They want to sell new guns.

[ileus]

10. Wonder if they have a Savage 24F in the group?

I need a extractor assembly for a 223/12ga.

We broke mine this weekend.

I managed to find a 223/20 ga that I hope to modify to fit, an extractor plunger, roll pin and spring. Now to find a suitable plunger spring... finding old obsolete parts can be tough.

[EL34x4]

18. The guns were stolen property.

If something was stolen from you and later recovered by the police, would you want it returned or destroyed?

[onehandle]

19. Hey, it was stolen, so I thought I'd never see it again.

So FUCKING MELT IT DOWN.

[C Moon]

9. "the suspect appears to have been hoarding the guns."

[Eleanors38]

20. Well, think of 7,000 cats.

[Sunlei]

11. piled like junk, hes a classic hoarder. They should wring out of him the people who sold to him.

They could solve a lot of burglaries, for guns, cars and chainsaws.

[olddots]

13. who would come to America as a tourist

when they could go to a civilized country like Albania ?

[EX500rider]

21. I suppose....

.....but Albania has a higher homicide rate then the US ... (as do over 1/2 the countries in the world including some tourists hotspots like Costa Rica)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[rockfordfile]

15. What a nut job

[MohRokTah]

16. What law did he violate?

I'm just curious about what was illegal here under current law.

[Archae]

17. He was selling dope, and the guns appear to be stolen ones.