Agents recovered 130 hand grenades, a grenade launcher, about 70 hand grenades rigged to be fired from a rifle, a machine gun, a short-barrel shotgun, 2,500 rounds of ammunition, explosives components, stolen fireworks and other items, said Jim Cavanaugh, regional head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
I wonder just what the machine gun was- and was it legally owned? The journalist doesn't say. Anyway, what really caught my eye about the story was this-
The men, members of the self-styled "Alabama Free Militia," had no apparent plans to use the weapons, but the leader was described as a federal fugitive, federal authorities said.
"They just have a beef with the government, and they stockpile munitions," U.S. Attorney Alice Martin said at a news conference in Fort Payne.
And that's a bad thing because?
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Sadly, the BATF has previously defined a shoestring as a "machine gun", and the recent brouhaha over the Adkins Accelerator being re-defined as a "machine gun" has caused me to eye askance any such announcement in the media.
They're only regurgitating what the BATF press release says and wouldn't know a machine gun if it...made itself known to them.
Mr. Bruce
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