sorry if this has been posted before, but i searched and couldn't find it, which surprised me since so many Tennesseans are on this board.
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i don't watch the news, but i heard some friends talking about seeing this guy on the news a couple times over the past two days giving the ATF and metro down the road. He (a USMC vet) claims (again, this is 3rd hand knowledge) that the rocket launcher was a model he made from PVC and not functional or ever intended to be a weapon.
Did anybody see him on TV?
also, "small amounts of nitric and sulfuric acid" are basic chemistry set kind of things that aren't hard to come by or dispose of. Why in the world would the BOMB SQUAD use an explosive charge to dispose of them? wouldn't that just scatter them around???
This has Fahreinheit 451 written all over it. Bomb Squads come to your house to blow up common chemicals rather than dispose of bombs?
yeah? let us know when he does something ILLEGAL.
20 guns?? OMG!
"marijuana-growing operation" sounds suspiciously like grow-lights with no actual weed present.
90% of people have the components of a meth lab in their house.
wouldn't ANY unknown substance be potentially hazardous? why confiscate it?
It seems to be that the solution to the ATF and LEO's tarnished images is simple: A photocopy of the search warrant should accompany every news story.
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MT. JULIET
Local and federal law enforcement officials arrested a Mt. Juliet man Tuesday after confiscating at his house 20 guns, a marijuana-growing operation, components of a methamphetamine lab and a potentially hazardous substance that couldn't be identified, they said.
J.E. Duncan, 53, of Paradise Drive was charged with two counts of possession of an explosive weapon, two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon, one count of marijuana manufacturing, one count of criminal attempt to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of felony possession of drug paraphernalia.
Duncan was held briefly at the Wilson County Jail before being released on a $16,500 bond. City police, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the 15th Judicial Drug Task Force and the Tennessee Highway Patrol's bomb squad executed a search warrant at Duncan's house about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Part of his neighborhood was cordoned off Tuesday night and police said they took material out of his house.
Authorities said they were tipped off by a report that suspicious photographs of possibly explosive materials and items such as a rocket-propelled grenade launcher had been dropped off for processing.
Sgt. Edward Cherry, commander of the THP bomb squad, said his unit disposed of a small amount of chemicals they believed to be nitric and sulfuric acid using an explosive charge.
"We suspect that he was using potassium chlorate to mix his own flash powder, which is another name for gunpowder," Cherry said.
— NATALIA MIELCZAREK AND IAN KRIEGISH
i don't watch the news, but i heard some friends talking about seeing this guy on the news a couple times over the past two days giving the ATF and metro down the road. He (a USMC vet) claims (again, this is 3rd hand knowledge) that the rocket launcher was a model he made from PVC and not functional or ever intended to be a weapon.
Did anybody see him on TV?
also, "small amounts of nitric and sulfuric acid" are basic chemistry set kind of things that aren't hard to come by or dispose of. Why in the world would the BOMB SQUAD use an explosive charge to dispose of them? wouldn't that just scatter them around???
This has Fahreinheit 451 written all over it. Bomb Squads come to your house to blow up common chemicals rather than dispose of bombs?
"We suspect that he was using potassium chlorate to mix his own flash powder, which is another name for gunpowder," Cherry said
yeah? let us know when he does something ILLEGAL.
confiscating at his house 20 guns, a marijuana-growing operation, components of a methamphetamine lab and a potentially hazardous substance that couldn't be identified, they said.
20 guns?? OMG!
"marijuana-growing operation" sounds suspiciously like grow-lights with no actual weed present.
90% of people have the components of a meth lab in their house.
wouldn't ANY unknown substance be potentially hazardous? why confiscate it?
It seems to be that the solution to the ATF and LEO's tarnished images is simple: A photocopy of the search warrant should accompany every news story.