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comment by kleinbl00

randomuser's post has, like, reporting in it. The National Post version is, well, National Posty.

    “The story itself sounds totally crazy but then how do you explain all this?” Braun said. “There’s no evidence he was a drug dealer or he stole these weapons, or had any criminal source of income, no stolen property, all the stuff you’d look for.”

You mean, other than

    Inside his home, detectives discovered more than 1,200 guns, scopes, 6.5 tons of ammunition, bows and arrows, knives, machetes and $230,000 in cash after he was found on Friday.

???

If I were a mexican narco gang? And I wanted a safe place to keep my armory? I'd go with a crazy white guy in the Palisades. Just sayin'.





randomuser  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    If I were a mexican narco gang? And I wanted a safe place to keep my armory? I'd go with a crazy white guy in the Palisades. Just sayin'.

Crazy white guy in the Palisades is a totally primo spot for your cartel arsenal. I grew up a few blocks from where this happened, and it's one of the only places I've lived where not locking your doors was kind of ok. I don't know how it is now, but 10-15 years ago my buddies and I thought we were total badasses running around at night, oblivious to the fact that we were literally in one of the most closed off places in LA, where teenage vandalism is what takes up any crime sections/articles in the "Palisades Post". Seems like the perfect spot to keep an armory under wraps, until you have the whim to take out a city or something in this guy's case.

I think the article stated many of the firearms had not been opened and all that, so maybe this guy was like shady arms dealer or something, but seriously wtf are you doing with that many guns if you don't even shoot them, it's not like this year's Glock 17 is ever going to turn into a collector's item or anything like that.

someguyfromcanada  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·  

haha. I just received 5 replies from emails where I forwarded this from people that live in the neighborhood and they said about the same.

cgod  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm kinda scared of cleaning out my dad's house when he passes because there is going to be a lot of strange stuff. Not guns but it will be weird enough to make people gossip if they knew. Strange paranoid people like to keep guns and cash around for no reason other than they are strange and paranoid. I'd like to know where all the money came from.

someguyfromcanada  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I dealt with finding letters to and from my father's girlfriend in Japan when he lived over there. While he was dating my Mother. When he died my Grandmother warned me about those and asked me to make sure my Mom did not see them. I think they produced offspring as well. My sister. ugh. Or the letter he wrote to me specifically in contemplation of his death.

Best of luck.

someguyfromcanada  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Never take anything a lawyer says as truth. He is spinning the facts and the very fact that he mentions those things makes me think they are true. But all of the vehicles and guns were apparently registered to him, in his apparent name.

I agree it is is shit reporting, but I have also not seen a really good story out there yet. I really want to find out how this turns out.