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groundloop

(11,518 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 08:38 AM Aug 2019

New Jersey man arrested for guns and drugs also had document on 'owning a slave': DOJ

Source: ABC News

A 57-year-old man charged with owning a cache of weapons, including a grenade launcher, and with the intent to sell methamphetamine also owned a document "purporting to be an instruction manual for owning a slave," according to the Department of Justice.

Joseph Rubino, of Lafayette Township, New Jersey, was charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, one count of possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime and one count of possession of firearms by a convicted felon, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey said in a statement on Tuesday.

Rubino crashed his vehicle on July 24, and when state police officers responded to the accident they saw "numerous weapons and ammunition inside," according to the statement.

After obtaining a warrant, authorities seized from Rubino's vehicle and home a collection of weapons. Among them:

TEC-DC9 semi-automatic assault handgun
9 mm semi-automatic assault pistol with high-capacity magazine
.22-caliber semi-automatic rifle loaded with hollow-point cartridges
.223-caliber bolt-action rifle with scope
Two sawed-off double-barrel shotguns
Rubino also owned silencers, an assault rifle scope and a ballistics vest, along with the grenade launcher, according to the DOJ.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/jersey-man-arrested-guns-drugs-document-owning-slave/story?id=65091165&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_card_hed

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New Jersey man arrested for guns and drugs also had document on 'owning a slave': DOJ (Original Post) groundloop Aug 2019 OP
would that instruction manual for owning a slave be the bible? rurallib Aug 2019 #1
The right to keep and bear slaves shall not be infringed IronLionZion Aug 2019 #2
You missed the part about a 'Well regulated plantation' groundloop Aug 2019 #4
Another rural MAGAt bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #3
K&R ck4829 Aug 2019 #5

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
2. The right to keep and bear slaves shall not be infringed
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 09:08 AM
Aug 2019

why punish all those responsible slave owners? It's not like we can change amendments to the constitution.

bucolic_frolic

(43,141 posts)
3. Another rural MAGAt
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 10:58 AM
Aug 2019

Sounds like this one was below the radar until he had a car accident. None too reassuring.

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