FBI: Minnesota man was making arsenal, revered mass shooters

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who said he idolized the shooter who killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs and was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police was arrested this week as he tried to buy grenades from an FBI informant, according to charges filed this week.

River William Smith, who also expressed interest in joining neo-Nazi paramilitary groups and fired an assault-style rifle in a 2019, leaving his grandmother with a hand injury, faces federal weapons charges, The U.S. Attorney General's office announced in a news release. FBI agents arrested the 20-year-old man on Wednesday after he purchased three hand grenades and four auto sears from an FBI informant, the AG's office said. An auto sear is a device that turns a firearm into an automatic weapon.

Smith, who lives in the Minneapolis suburb of Savage, had told the informant that the shooter who killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub last month was a “hero,” called Black people “agents of satan,” and said he was ready to engage the police “with armor and full autos," an FBI agent said in an affidavit.

Smith is in custody and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Online court records show he is being represented by the Office of the Federal Defender. Phone and email messages seeking comment on his behalf were not immediately returned Friday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-minnesota-man-was-making-arsenal-revered-mass-shooters/ar-AA15mS39

Guy sounds like a piece of work.

[spanone]

1. 'idolized the shooter'

a certain kind of fucking crazy

[gratuitous]

2. Lots of money to buy his bang-bangs

But it's up to the American taxpayer to pay for his lawyer.

[marble falls]

4. I'm willing to foot the bill for his 6th amendment rights. I want him to have an appeal proof trial.

[SharonClark]

3. 20 year old white guy.

Is anyone surprised?

[Model35mech]

7. Am a white guy. At 20 I was already a Vietnam Vet

I was rebellious. But my rebellion didn't move toward gun violence and insurrection.

But I was removed from a Carbondale IL city council meeting for being disruptive

My crime was that I stood up in a council meeting and shouted that I found it hypocritical that I was good enough to face dying for the City Council in Vietnam but not good enough, or old enough, under their proposed city ordinance to buy a beer.

I really do not believe all 20 year old white kids are out to be Trump's Brown Shirts.

I do believe 20 years olds can be opinionated.

[superpatriotman]

5. Using a public defender

Who would have guessed?

[republianmushroom]

6. and the nuts keep getting nutter

[Chainfire]

8. Maybe he will mature in Federal Prison.

Behind bars sounds like the perfect place for his continuing education. The Feds take a really dim view of people who hoard illegal machine guns. He probably won't be reintroduced to society until he is middle aged.

What is really scary is that he probably came to the FBI's attention because he ran his stupid mouth, but there are people out there doing the same things that are smart enough to not post or brag about it.

[sarisataka]

10. He was reported to the FBI

By a gun range employee. He was acting suspicious- doing lots of quick reload drills, setting up makeshift barricades to shoot around and such.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. "Piece of Work" is right.

Someone or something “made” him into a murderous raging lunatic.