Thousands of guns seized from home, warehouse in S.C.
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
(233 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)Electric Monk
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Eugene
(61,805 posts)Source: Charlotte Observer
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 sheriffs office in Chesterfield where the thousands of items will be processed.
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The sheriff said many of the guns looked like theyd been stored for years.
Theres no evidence that he even used them, Brooks said. Theres 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
(11,902 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)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.
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Demeter
(85,373 posts)We should be grateful he was only into hoarding, not insurrection.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)used guns hurt gun manufacturers profits. They want to sell new guns.
ileus
(15,396 posts)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
(2,003 posts)If something was stolen from you and later recovered by the police, would you want it returned or destroyed?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)So FUCKING MELT IT DOWN.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They could solve a lot of burglaries, for guns, cars and chainsaws.
olddots
(10,237 posts)when they could go to a civilized country like Albania ?
EX500rider
(10,798 posts).....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
(8,695 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)I'm just curious about what was illegal here under current law.