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Re:Capital One attacker may have breached other major corpor... by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:42PM (#20567834)
> While federal agents were sweeping the three-bedroom house where Thompson lives they discovered 20 firearms — both assault-style rifles and handguns — as well as firearm accessories, including bumpstocks, scopes, grips and ammunition, in another bedroom, according to a separate complaint filed against the homeowner, 66-year-old Park Quan.

> Quan, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of explosives in 1983 and being a felon in possession of an unregistered machine gun in 1991, was arrested and charged Monday with being a felon in possession of a firearm, federal court records show.

> In the 1983 criminal case, Quan and two co-conspirators were linked to a failed contract killing using a truck bomb made of dynamite, according to court records and news reports. The bomb, which the would-be victim found attached to the underside of his pickup in Ocean Shores, Grays Harbor County, had malfunctioned, The Seattle Times reported at the time.

There are no words...

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Re:Capital One attacker may have breached other major corpor... by VoiceOfWisdom on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:53PM (#20567964)
If you are already a felon for owning a gun, why the hell would you own a bumpstock? Just go full giggle at that point.
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Re:Capital One attacker may have breached other major corpor... by mieseratte on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:05PM (#20568075)
> Just go full giggle at that point.

Well it's not as if you can just break into any old gun store or rural home and find a select-fire weapon.

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Re:Capital One attacker may have breached other major corpor... by jdhn on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:02PM (#20568544)
Just put a lightning link into your AR style rifle, and voilà, you have a full auto gun.
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Re:Capital One attacker may have breached other major corpor... by nostalgk on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:46PM (#20568957)
Pretty sure a lightning link is more "elect-fire", not select-fire. Not to mention much more dangerous than the relatively well documented and simple (highly illegal without an SOT) procedure that can be easily found to do a proper conversion.
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