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Last I read the Lautenberg amendment didn’t include ‘delusional’ as something that prohibits one from owning a ammunition, especially when the “subject” is deemed such by an ex-girlfriend! Even under domestic protective orders it’s the firearm that is prohibited. And I wonder how much pressure the ex- was under by the us attorney to file that protective order….

Armageddon ready: 80,000 bullets in house

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Authorities removed nearly 80,000 rounds of ammunition from a home of a man they say warned that the world was going to end.

Kevin W. Rieder, 38, was charged with illegal possession of ammunition while he was subject to a restraining order taken out by an ex-girlfriend, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Schmidt.
Rieder “believed that the world economy was going to crash and society would become violent,” according to a federal affidavit.
He told investigators, “You just have to protect yourself sometimes.”
He will remain in custody until a bail and detention hearing Tuesday, Schmidt said.
South Bend police and agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blocked off streets around Rieder’s small two-story home for six hours Wednesday while executing a search warrant and arresting Rieder.
Authorities removed 79,010 rounds of ammunition from the raid on the home that followed a six-month investigation, Schmidt said. It was the largest amount of ammunition confiscated by the Project Disarm task force since it was founded in April 2004, Rieder said.
The affidavit indicated that a mental health investigation found Rieder was delusional.
Rieder purchased 18,000 rounds of ammunition in three visits to the Midwest Gun Exchange store in Mishawaka, said owner Brad Foster.
“18,000 rounds is more than the normal purchase, but not out of the line that we do see on a regular basis,” he said.
Foster said Rieder told store employees that the end of the world was coming.

And what the heck, ATF has a “Project Disarm”????? And it took them 6 months figure out how to get him… our tax dollars at work, folks.

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