re raid justification was blast them next time on wed apr gmt peter cash cash convex com wrote i just got through listening to the o clock news on channel here in dallas they trotted out a list of justifications produced by the atf after months of investigation for their raid cnn just claimed he bought semi automatic assault rifles and they say koresh wasn t god like he managed to buy or build a collection of fully automatic semi automatic rifles quite a feat i would say they re still making charges of sexual abuse and such or course nobody seems to have noticed that the treasury department has nothing to do with sex crimes or maybe the feds have recently instituted a tax on sex crimes yeah that s why the batf was there looking for unregistered guns this is my weapon this is my gun this is for fighting this is for i couldn t believe the junk on this list for example the bds were accused of stockpiling a bunch of mm and ammunition that can be used in m and m assault rifles imagine that they had ammunition i also heard that they re claiming to be cautious because of koresh s heated ammunition stockpile i seem to recall that smokeless powder tends to decompose at even moderate temperatures i would be rather surprised after a fire of that nature if any of his stockpile is unexploded or unburned they also had aluminum dust yeah it s a component of thermite but so far i haven t heard that it s illegal to take a grinder to the aluminum lawn furniture i seem to recall that aluminum powder is a common component of fireworks the folks on rec pyro could probably tell you the only thing on the list that could conceivably have been illegal was an m grenade launcher anybody know about this i think anything is legal if you have the proper license if he had a curios and relics permit i believe he could legally own handgrenades to go with his launcher charles scripter cescript phy mtu edu dept of physics michigan tech houghton mi when all government in little as in great things shall be drawn to washington as the centre of all power it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated thomas jefferson
