According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, somebody with Routh’s same full name and date of birth racked up more than a dozen criminal charges in 2001 and 2002, including for carrying a concealed weapon and hit and run. He also picked up a particularly alarming felony in April 2002 for “possessing a weapon of mass destruction,” records show.
fucking what? the ATF is happy to jail you and shoot your dog if your AR's barrel is 10" long, how the fuck was this person roaming free after being caught with what was presumably a bomb!?
IIRC the term "WMD" applies to three four things: biological, chemical, and nuclear, and radiological. So it could have been any of those.
In other news I once remember reading that the USA had a policy that it would respond in kind were anyone to use a WMD on them. However the USA didnt employ biological, chemical, or radiological weapons at the time so regardless of what was used on them the response was going to be a nuke.
Even better, that was 2002. The guy who sent fake Anthrax (or who took the fall for the fake Anthrax) was facing decades in Federal prison. This guy built a N(R)BC device and was free as a bird in 2018.
via the NY Post
fucking what? the ATF is happy to jail you and shoot your dog if your AR's barrel is 10" long, how the fuck was this person roaming free after being caught with what was presumably a bomb!?
IIRC the term "WMD" applies to
threefour things: biological, chemical, and nuclear, and radiological. So it could have been any of those.In other news I once remember reading that the USA had a policy that it would respond in kind were anyone to use a WMD on them. However the USA didnt employ biological, chemical, or radiological weapons at the time so regardless of what was used on them the response was going to be a nuke.
That's the normal language, but some states have expanded that concept in state law to refer to explosives like bombs or grenades.
Even better, that was 2002. The guy who sent fake Anthrax (or who took the fall for the fake Anthrax) was facing decades in Federal prison. This guy built a N(R)BC device and was free as a bird in 2018.
I forget where, but I heard the "WMD" was a machine gun. And that he got into an armed standoff with the police.
Oh come on! "Well the guy has the exact same name, same birthday and lives in the same state, but it totally might be a different guy!"
It was a machine gun, they just called it a "weapon of mass destruction" because everybody was that kind of retarded in 2002.
Be a right winger, saw a shotgun 1/16" too short: see your wife's head explode via a FBI sniper round.
Be a right winger, sell a firearm component approved by the ATF: die in a flaming pyre while the ATF take selfies.
Be a left winger, own an unregistered machine gun in 2002 and have a standoff with the cops: make all the contacts and become a deep state actor.
If it was a squad weapon, I can see how it gets that designation. It's more than "arms" potentially. "mass" is open to interpretation.