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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 03:27 AM Feb 2013

Gun Nut Has Kill List of Obama's Supporters



Two high-powered rifles, two bayonets, a sword, a knuckle knife, body armor and ammunition. Included in the 100 rounds of ammunition were 27 so-called "tank buster" .50 caliber armor-piercing shells were recovered at Lawrence Mulqueen's home
Mulqueen's landlady had tipped off police after she found a "hit list" posted on Facebook that threatened Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and all members of the Congressional Black Caucus..
Mulqueen, 49, was arraigned Thursday on charges of making terroristic threats, illegally possessing weapons and harassment.
Police were called Wednesday afternoon by Mulqueen's landlady, who said he'd been harassing her. She tipped them to Mulqueen's alleged threats, made on a Facebook page under a pseudonym, police said.
A Nanuet man is accused of making death threats on Facebook against the governor of New York, the mayor of New York City and several members of Congress, Clarkstown Police said.

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Gun Nut Has Kill List of Obama's Supporters (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2013 OP
Of the three, 'making terroristic threats, illegally possessing weapons and harassment...' freshwest Feb 2013 #1
One wonders how many with a similar mindset have access to the type of arsenal indepat Feb 2013 #26
That's a 'room full'? AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #2
TMI BainsBane Feb 2013 #5
It was a bizzare characterization. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #6
to average people BainsBane Feb 2013 #7
It's the bare linguistic minimum to qualify as gunS, plural. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #8
What were those bullets? BainsBane Feb 2013 #9
Sounds like he had a few rounds of steel core. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #11
or didn't bother to figure out BainsBane Feb 2013 #12
Possibly. None of the news channels interviewed him. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #13
Good point nt BainsBane Feb 2013 #24
Oh, his happy ass is not going to be bothering us ever again. AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #15
That headline caught my eye too! Plucketeer Feb 2013 #21
Looked like two firearms and three short swords. ZombieHorde Feb 2013 #14
It's a 'lot' for a convicted felon. ;) AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #16
Average people where??? Two is two. marble falls Feb 2013 #19
Background checks are a high priority golfguru Feb 2013 #3
He was afraid the govt was coming for his guns... JohnnyRingo Feb 2013 #4
This rocket scientist was just begging to be arrested nt MrScorpio Feb 2013 #10
He didn't kill anybody Turbineguy Feb 2013 #17
Cool- Let's all focus on the video title and not the fact that he publicly threatened the President WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2013 #18
Extremists on both sides of the issue are hung up on numbers. Why do nutcases actually have to .... marble falls Feb 2013 #20
I wonder if Dick Durbin's feelings are hurt, being left off the list. Bucky Feb 2013 #22
Take his guns.He's obviously not in his right mind.Lock him up for a few so he can get the shit kick judesedit Feb 2013 #23
Another tea bagger nut-case off the streets Left Coast2020 Feb 2013 #25

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. Of the three, 'making terroristic threats, illegally possessing weapons and harassment...'
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 03:43 AM
Feb 2013

Which one is a felony? Or are all of them? Aren't terrorist threasts under federal law and handled by Homeland Security? How often are people charged with terrorist threats in other cases, I wonder? Would it be stalking or harrassment?

I got a feeling this guy is going to a psychiatric facillity and not jail, really. And we may never know about the results, either. At least no one was killed or maimed off of this one.



indepat

(20,899 posts)
26. One wonders how many with a similar mindset have access to the type of arsenal
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 07:02 PM
Feb 2013

this man had acquired and how many of that ilk listen to one or more of the stochastic terrorists who preach hate and anarchy around the clock, prodding their audience. Houston, do you see a problem with this mixture?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
2. That's a 'room full'?
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:24 AM
Feb 2013

Really? Shit, I must be sitting on the Arsenal Of The Ages


By all means though, lock that freak up and get him some treatment.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
6. It was a bizzare characterization.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:03 AM
Feb 2013

I can't imagine a 'room full' of anything being that small.

Translate the weight of those firearms into 1lb bricks of weed. If the cops busted a place and found about 15 1lb bricks of weed, would that be a 'room full'?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
8. It's the bare linguistic minimum to qualify as gunS, plural.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:07 AM
Feb 2013

Two. Two rifles.

The rest is just stupid shit. Bayonets? Why not count the contents of his knife block?
All that shit would fit in your standard grocery sack.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
11. Sounds like he had a few rounds of steel core.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:27 AM
Feb 2013

Legal in rifle rounds, because for the purposes of the police, all rifle rounds are armor piercing.

I should say, legal as long as none of it was armor-piercing pistol ammo. That is quite illegal. (Ordinarily, pistol rounds will not pierce a bullet-resistant vest)

None of those large rifle rounds fit in either rifle pictured. Wonder if he has something in a storage facility somewhere, or stored at a friend's house.

That ammo pictured is 12.95mm x 138mm (.50BMG)

The bottom rifle fires Edit: REDACTED. I'm not sure WHAT that thing fires, on closer inspection. Might be a 6mm? WTF is that? Looks a little bit Japanese or maybe Russian. This video is blurry as shit.
Top rifle is a lever gun, old school, new clothes. Probably a .30-30, or something like that. The rounds look large, like .45-70 government, but the scope would be totally useless, as that caliber has a trajectory like a rainbow, so it's likely just a proportion/illusion thing.
Assuming .30-30, that's 7.8mm x 51mm.

Edit: what the hell, none of those bayonets are for either rifle. This is like the island of misfit weapons.

BainsBane

(53,056 posts)
12. or didn't bother to figure out
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:30 AM
Feb 2013

the right ammo for his guns. He obviously is a bit unhinged, probably from listening to Rush and Beck.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
13. Possibly. None of the news channels interviewed him.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:32 AM
Feb 2013

Maybe he is that bent, but seems like he'd be pretty hard pressed to be that whacky... I mean, those rounds are an order of magnitude larger than either rifle would accept.

If I were the cops, I'd be talking to all his friends, relatives. It seems likely he has access to a .50 caliber weapon somewhere, even if he doesn't own it.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
15. Oh, his happy ass is not going to be bothering us ever again.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:39 AM
Feb 2013

49 years old? Convicted felon with at least 2 counts of firearm possession? Plus the threats and such? He's done.

Wonder where he got the guns in New York... He didn't buy them legally, that's for damn sure.

(One source reports the top weapon as a 1 "Remington .35-caliber pump-action rifle loaded with 6 rounds", which could be true, except the pump bit, because it's obviously a lever-action)

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
21. That headline caught my eye too!
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 01:08 PM
Feb 2013

Of course - in all fairness - no one spelled out the dimensions of the "room".

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
14. Looked like two firearms and three short swords.
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 06:38 AM
Feb 2013

I don't think that is a lot weapons to the average US citizen. I think most gun owners, at least where I live, own more than one gun.

To call that a roomful seems silly to me. That might fill the shelf in my bedroom closet.

 

golfguru

(4,987 posts)
3. Background checks are a high priority
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 05:36 AM
Feb 2013

to weed out nuts like these. I would go so far as to require bi-annual renewal of license to own firearms and a short interview. OTOH single black women living in crime infested areas are most vulnerable to home invasions, muggings & rapes and must have easy access to a defensive firearm.

JohnnyRingo

(18,640 posts)
4. He was afraid the govt was coming for his guns...
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 05:54 AM
Feb 2013

...so he did something that made the govt come get his guns. That's both ironic and moronic.

I still have mine because I'm not completely insane. Hahahaha

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
18. Cool- Let's all focus on the video title and not the fact that he publicly threatened the President
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 12:02 PM
Feb 2013

Just for everyone's information, the title on YouTube is Man equipped with Full of high-powered Assault Weapons Has Kill List of Obama's Supporters. I made a slight alteration so that it would make some sort of sense. (Attempting to guess what the OP was trying to say) IT AIN'T MY VIDEO FOLKS- I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE GIVEN IT A DIFFERENT TITLE.

marble falls

(57,172 posts)
20. Extremists on both sides of the issue are hung up on numbers. Why do nutcases actually have to ....
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 12:13 PM
Feb 2013

have a list of victims?

judesedit

(4,442 posts)
23. Take his guns.He's obviously not in his right mind.Lock him up for a few so he can get the shit kick
Sun Feb 24, 2013, 03:49 PM
Feb 2013

ed out of him.

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