Just days after the Boulder mass shooting, a Denver man was pulled over in Nebraska...

[Nevilledog]

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I can’t stop thinking about this: Just days after the Boulder mass shooting, a Denver man was pulled over in Nebraska for driving 120 mph. He tells a trooper his neighbors don’t like him, he had a breakdown, quit his job, left the state in his car.

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I can’t stop thinking about this: Just days after the Boulder mass shooting, a Denver man was pulled over in Nebraska for driving 120 mph. He tells a trooper his neighbors don’t like him, he had a breakdown, quit his job, left the state in his car.

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What does the Nebraska trooper find in this guy’s car? A handgun in his jacket, a loaded AR-15 with an illegal silencer, four other firearms, ammunition, a bulletproof blanket and vest, two brown wigs, and an Air Force costume. They also found weed.

They arrest him on guns/drug charges. But he’s RELEASED after posting $5,000 bond - after threatening to use his time in jail to “think about getting even with people,” said he’d kill a guard, exposed himself, and threw his poop around.

But I guess they let him keep his guns?

Because six days later, he shows up in Iowa and goes to a gun store to buy an AR-15. The store employee described the Denver man as “heavily armed and agitated.” Then the Denver man tells the employee he was surprised his friends didn’t suspect he was the Boulder mass shooter. 😳

So thankfully the Iowa gun store employee denied the sale, and then the store notified the ATF about the Denver man’s comments. Agents arrested him on a new federal charge stemming from the Nebraska traffic stop: illegal possession of a firearm as an unlawful user of marijuana.

Anyhoo, the self-described "firearms enthusiast” is now back in jail in Iowa and awaiting a hearing.

And somehow, America narrowly escaped another horrific mass shooting by a dangerous man who had easy access to an arsenal and was allowed to break the law over and over.

And the system (sort of) worked in Iowa, but - coincidentally- Republicans in Iowa just passed a bill to allow the carry of hidden, loaded handguns in public without a permit or training.

Text IOWA to 644-33 now and tell @IAGovernor to veto this radical bill. #IALegis #ialeg

[joetheman]

1. WTF is wrong with Nebraska??? They should be investigated.

[marble falls]

4. When I lived there, this would never have gotten past the arraignment. He's never have ...

... made it to Iowa for at least a few years.

[marble falls]

2. Something we'd never be able to explain to our friends in other nations.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

WTF?

[malaise]

6. Two days ago: Man with body armor, guns, possible explosives arrested at University of Kentucky

hospital
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-body-armor-guns-possible-explosives-arrested-university-kentucky-hospital-n1262087

A man was arrested Thursday afternoon after authorities found him in possession of firearms, body armor and possible explosives at a University of Kentucky hospital in Lexington.

Authorities were tipped off by police in nearby Versailles, Kentucky, that suspect Bryan Carroll may be “armed and dangerous,” University of Kentucky Police Chief Joe Monroe. Carroll was allegedly at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Hospital to visit a family member.
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And this was last night:
Two people were killed and at least eight injured in Virginia Beach shootings
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/27/us/virginia-beach-shootings/index.html

A shooting in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday night appears to have resulted from a fight among a group of people, police said in a press release Saturday afternoon.

Another incident in which a woman died is still being investigated, but police say they do not believe it is related to the first shooting -- or an additional case in which an officer fatally shot a man.
The initial shooting call came after a group of people got into an argument, the Virginia Beach Police Department (VBPD) said.
"At some point during the physical altercation, several individuals produced firearms and began shooting at each other, resulting in numerous people being wounded," the release said.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. Right-wing it,death loving psychopaths

Love fucking guns.

We gotta do something to stop psychopaths and narcissists and get them off the street .
We also need get psychopaths out of the police and justice system. The asshole judges that give bail
option to obviously dangerous scum like this asshole that gets him out of jail when he gets caught.

Agitated assholes talking about joyfully murdering people need to be and stay in jail.

[ancianita]

8. Violent times, but even a meme can make me wish this were a co-sponsored bill on gun purchases

Let's shift the pro-life "undue burden" where it belongs.

[BobTheSubgenius]

9. That is one great meme!

Suits this horrifying story perfectly.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. That is Fricking BRILLIANT

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Add: You must register 6 months before. Your signature will be examined.

[Straw Man]

11. Something is fishy here.

They let him keep his guns? On what is that conclusion based? Police don't return guns to people who are released on bail for gun charges. They just don't.

The only place that I can find the phrase "heavily armed and agitated" is in an AP story, and it's not attributed to a store employee or anyone else by the writer of the story, AP's Ryan J. Foley. Foley further states that Vannoy posted an Instagram video about purchasing firearms at Brownell's in Grinnell, Iowa, but the actual video show his purchases as gun parts, accessories, and ammunition. A "Glock 80% lower" is a pistol frame, not a pistol.

It isn't clear that he was armed at the other store, where he tried to purchase the AR-15. If he was, it could have been with other weapons he had owned prior to the incident. It seems more likely that he was trying to replace the weapons that had been confiscated. The store owners did exactly what they're supposed to do, and now he has Federal charges in addition to state. I'm guessing that the Federal charges resulted from his lying on the background check form, which has questions about arrest history and drug use.

Sloppy journalism all around, I'm afraid.