Massive arsenal, and deadly explosives found in raid

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That's an arsenal?

To me that looks like a decent number for an all day range trip, maybe. And if I was that low on powder, it'd be a household crisis.

On the serious side of this: I won't even go there, 'cause even my mildest reaction belongs on a forum that allows "R" content, at worst it's possibly illegal.

Way to go JBT squad!!!!!:cuss: :cuss: :barf:
 
I think it's likely the homemade blasting caps that are likely to cause him troubles. I believe there are some pretty strict regulations on how they must be stored. I'm not sure what the laws say about making your own blasting caps either.

I have a friend that does a lot of blasting on his property, and I know he had to jump through a number of hoops to be able to legally store the explosives on his property.
 
Among the stockpile seized Tuesday night were 11 firearms, 50-caliber machine-gun bullets, hollowed hand grenades, a night vision scope, cardboard tubes, ammunition clips and how-to books about weapons and bombs, including "Breath of the Dragon: Homebuilt Flame Throwers," authorities said.
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Uh... so? :scrutiny: What exactly was illegal here?
Nepi, who works as an armored car security guard with AT Systems in Wilmington... Neighbors expressed shock that the St. Mark's High School graduate possessed such an arsenal.

"Whenever he saw the kids playing on the road, he would always drive slow and look out for them," said Kathy Rumford, who lives next door. "He was very respectful."

Rumford said when she returned home at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday she was astonished to learn Nepi had been arrested.

Nepi's parents, Robert and Marie, are great neighbors, she said.

Kathy Covelli-Reyes, who has lived in the community for years, said Mark Nepi was a good kid.
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Sounds like a terrorist to me. :rolleyes:
"We're going to do everything we can to try and understand why he was in possession of these weapons," he said. "We want to make sure we check that some of these weapons are not stolen and that he did have a legal reason to have them."
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:cuss:

Check out the "bomb making materials"...
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Is that a Benelli I spy on the left? We all know how those criminals and terrorists love their Benelli shotguns! :rolleyes:
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EDIT: Now watch, I'll get all huffy about this, and it'll turn out Osama bin Laden was hiding in his basement or something. :D
 
Wonder if the blasting caps were the kind that you put on the nipple of a BP rifle or put in the case when you pop out the old one during reloading.
 
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however, the probation violation wasn't too good, nor the drug stuff


If you are going to have guns DONT DO DRUGS.
 
Nightfall, the cardboard tubes were the "drug paraphanelia" part of the charges. He was gonna stuff them with thier sister paraphanelia, dryer sheets so no one could smell the smoke he exhaled, DUH. :mad: :mad: :banghead:

So see, those of you who, like me, made rockets out of them in junior high are now guilty of possesing paraphanelia, and possesion of explosive devices. Let's all be good little sheeple, and go turn ourselves in for this henious violation!!

:barf:
 
Did you all enjoy the part about them evacuating the neighborhood, because of the explosives he had?????????

Most folks here who relaod have way more smokeless propellant than this guy did. He had Ammonium nitrate too!!!

A bag of fertilizer in the garage perhaps????

The bomb squad blew it all up, did you get that part.

My guess is that the home made blasting caps were black powder primers, or pistol or rifle primers.

His bail $8500 shows how serious the Judge thought the charges were.

He was on probation for a misdemeanor charge and he bought a handgun, with a legal background check, after he came home the police somehow found out about the background check and the handgun purchase, AFTER they issued a proceede and the shop sold him the handgun.

My guess is that they wont find a thing to charge him with.
 
For anyone that has never talked to a druggie,,,, if you have cigarette papers on you, and no dope, the cops can charge paraphenalia,,, they may not convict, but it is still a charge you have to hire a lawyer for. The article did not say dope. I call BS on that part, without further information. Officers discretion. a hypodermic is also paraphenalia, is this guy or someone he knows diabetic, and shooting insulin?

My SHTF medical kit has hypos in it, also has surgical sutures, are they going to get me for doctoring without a license because of tools? We are quick to say "ho hum" for the guns, but the intent here is to have enough charges that he will plead guilty to something, anything, to get them to go away. :banghead:

I hope someone keeps us updated on this one, please?
 
"He had Ammonium nitrate too!!!

A bag of fertilizer in the garage perhaps????"

Or perhaps on of those first aid cold pack - the kind you squeeze. Check the ingredients = ammonium nitrate & water.
 
Oh geeze, what a stupid way the world works now. I'd be arrested 50 times over if he got arrested for that!

Geeze!

I mean, really, he had a few LEGAL rifles and some blackpowder? Uh... no laws broken. Primers and DBSP? No laws broken. FERTILIZER?!!!! NO LAWS BROKEN! How is it illegal all of the sudden to have fertilizer? Do we REALLY live in such a paranoid country? :cuss: :fire: :banghead:
 
Possession of dynamite and/or blasting caps is a matter of state law. Georgia, for instance, only allows sales to people licensed by the state; Texas has no such requirement.

The feds only require that you show ID and register your purchase. IIRC, the form is in quadruplicate. A copy to you; to BATFE, and I guess one for those states which require it of the seller. The seller is required to keep a copy. The feds require explosives to be kept in a locked container in a locked storage room--doubly locked, IOW.

Smokeless powder isn't an explosive, by federal definition. It can be misused to make a destructive device, of course.

Art
 
Among the stockpile seized Tuesday night were 11 firearms, 50-caliber machine-gun bullets, hollowed hand grenades, a night vision scope, cardboard tubes, ammunition clips and how-to books about weapons and bombs, including "Breath of the Dragon: Homebuilt Flame Throwers," authorities said.
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None of those things are illegal. Last I checked it was completely legal to have books on bombs and flamethrowers etc for personal entertainment.
Since they did not find a single bomb or flamethrower that is what these books were for, personal entertainment. I have reprints of army field manuals on the 1919 since I was thinking about doing a semiauto build a while back. Am I now possessing a how-to book on building machine guns?
Empty hand grenades are war tchotchkes and can be bought at any army and navy store for 4$. Hell I almost bought one becauise I thought it would be a neat desk ornament.
I like the way they split up his eeeevil assault weapons so the uppers and lowers are all seperate, makign it look like he has 5 rifles there when it is actually 3. And is that a upper handguard for an AK at the bottom right? Why the hell do they feel the need to display that???
Times are changing, much for the worse. I like the way it is now a crime in the court of public and media opinion to have 11 guns. I have 5 guns and a muzzleloader, am I halfway there yet?:barf:
 
The demonization is done on an individual or small group basis -- always with some other taboo (even if false) tossed in. Randy Weaver = White Supremesist; David Koresh = child molester; Mark Nepi = druggie

Beware and ponder how such tactics could be used against the JBT and their bosses. Be your own "Henry Bowman."
 
Hey at least they didn't surrond his house & then burn the poor bugger out. Unlike some federal agencies do...
 
Boy, its a good thing there wasn't any gasoline on the premises. I can just imagine what he could have done with that........ And its hard to believe someone that respectful and kind to kids could own evil black firearms.

Tripe disguised as journalism to keep the bliss ninnies in fear.

The "security blanket" just keeps getting a little tighter.
 
Authorities are trying to figure out why a 26-year-old Prices Corner man kept guns, homemade blasting caps and ammonium nitrate - a key ingredient in making explosives such as those used in the Oklahoma City bombing - in his home.
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Yeah ... there's fair, balanced and unbiased "journalism" :rolleyes:
Every gardner is now a Suspected Terrorist :rolleyes:


Here's how I see it:

Authorities are trying to figure out why a 26-year-old Prices Corner man kept guns, reloading supplies and ammonium nitrate - a key ingredient in to keeping his lawn green and growing a nice crop of home grown tomatoes - in his home.


Okay, one more :rolleyes:
 
Wow, I'm gonna go home and throw away all of those rolls of Christmas wrapping paper from last year... don't want to go to jail. Better stop using TP, too...

On another note,

You can have dynamite in Texas???

COOL.... :D
 
You know, the tubes very well could have been the drug paraphanelia... especially since he wasn't charged with drug possession. It ticks me off that they do this, like when they closed some head shops in Pittsburgh a while back and charged them with selling 'drug paraphanelia.' IMHO, it's NOT drug paraphanelia until it has drug residue in it! You mean to tell me that you can't smoke tobacco out of a bong, or inject marinade into a chicken breast with a syringe? Jeez, I have a mirror in my bathroom, and razor blades in my garage! I must be a coke-head!

Wonder what the disorderly conduct charge that he's on probation for is all about. Who knows, maybe he bent over wrong at the supermarket and exposed the grip of his CCW!

Need more information, but from all I've seen so far, I don't think I'd mind having this guy as my neighbor. Except he's 26, he really should get his own place.
 
Don't y'all just love state police major Baylor uttering:
"We're going to do everything we can to try and understand why he was in possession of these weapons," he said. "We want to make sure we check that some of these weapons are not stolen and that he did have a legal reason to have them."
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So all of the sudden one has to prove "need" in Delaware?
 
chief big HOOOHA needs to check Delaware constitution:

which guarrantees the right to keep and bear arms for any purpose.

The whole thing is because this guy was on Probation for a misdemeanor.

He's an armoured car guard, so he carries a gun everyday, he's passed a regular background check, and he's bonded.

But surely they will find something to charge him with, especially since they called the media and made a three ring circus out of this.
 
But surely they will find something to charge him with, especially since they called the media and made a three ring circus out of this
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For real. Stories like this are depressing. If they can take down a poor sap like Nepi, ANY OF US are at risk.

Repeat after me, its not a house its a...compound. Its not a gun collection its an...arsenal. Its not reloading supplies its...bomb-ingredients.
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Hmm.....this guy punches out the windows of a car after an argument with his neighbor. If it was his car, I guess that's OK. But since he has been (apparently) convicted of disorderly conduct for doing it, my guess is there was more to it than that. If this was done to the property of another as an attempt to intimidate or "get back" at them - why would one think he was not "terrorizing" the neighbor?

I can't overlook the actions of a hothead simply because he is a gun owner. This is the kind of bad press we don't need more of. If he can't control his temper, maybe he doesn't need another handgun right now.
If he's convicted on trumped-up charges, then I'll be indignant. But for the moment - it seems to me he brought much of this upon himself.

Sorry - not somebody I want living next to me.
 
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