Dozens of firearms found in search of Minnesota shootings suspect's home

[Jilly_in_VA]

Investigators who searched the home of the man suspected of killing former DFL Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark recovered four dozen firearms, including rifles, pistols and shotguns.

Judges on Friday unsealed multiple search warrants from the investigation into Vance Boelter that include details that had not been public previously. Boelter is also accused of shooting and seriously wounding DFL State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette at their home in Champlin early Saturday, about 90 minutes before killing the Hortmans.

Boelter allegedly abandoned a Ford Explorer SUV outfitted to look like a police squad car in the Hortmans’ driveway. Inside, investigators found three AK-47 style rifles, one of which Boelter had purchased in 1998. In a criminal complaint unsealed earlier this week, federal prosecutors say that police found a handwritten list of the names and addresses of Democratic elected officials along with abortion rights supporters.

The “no-knock” warrant for Boelter’s home near Green Isle that BCA Agent Brent Petersen requested just before noon Saturday lists pistols, shotguns and semi-automatic rifles found in different areas of the house and outbuildings on the 11-acre property. Investigators also recovered computers, a notecard with the names of public officials and boxes of ammunition as well as $17,940 in cash.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/20/vance-boelter-investigation-unsealed-search-warrants

He had BODY BAGS. What was he doing with BODY BAGS and where did he get them?

[calguy]

1. He sounds like your typical MAGA ammosexual

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Compensating for

teeny weeny peenie syndrome?

[SheltieLover]

6. No doubt, Jilly!

[Greg_In_SF]

2. You can buy

body bags on Amazon

[ck4829]

4. Enough ammunition to kill thousands of people!

[FirstLight]

5. body bags...narly...

maybe he was gonna bag his family after dispatching them?

[Wicked Blue]

7. Who gave him almost $18,000 in cash?

His weapons collection sounds like it cost a bundle too. I can't believe this monster planned and carried out his murders alone, without some kind of backing.

[stopdiggin]

8. possible. (although far from given) but this kind of

gun collecting - really doesn't have anything to do with 'planning'. Ego, self aggrandizement - maybe a bit of fetishism, fantasy, cos-play, perhaps. But an actual 'game plan' (or even intent)? Most of the time - no. And also, no. It is really kind of rare to see any kind of outside 'financial backing' as any kind of factor with these characters.

[Walleye]

9. Maybe he got the money by defaulting on his taxes