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This is crazy.


http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article41313024.html

Saturday, his deputies arrested 51-year-old Brent Nicholson of Pageland after they found thousands – their best estimate is 7,000 to 10,000 – of handguns and rifles stacked at his house and in a nearby storage building. They found hundreds more at a liquor store Nicholson runs with his father and at his parents’ home, Brooks said.

“There were so many guns we quit counting after a while,” the sheriff said.

Deputies also found hunting crossbows; ammunition; taxidermed deer, elk and alligator heads; hunting mounts; tools; air compressors and more than 500 chainsaws – most of it, Brooks said, stolen. There was “so much stuff” that by 3 p.m. Saturday authorities had filled four 40-foot tractor-trailers and taken it to an armory near the sheriff’s office in Chesterfield where the thousands of items will be processed.

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The discovery was made when deputies arrived at Nicholson’s house Friday about 3 p.m. to serve a subpoena for an unrelated matter, Brooks said.

They found chainsaws and a welder “in plain sight” on the front lawn that had been reported stolen, he said. “They went to a judge and got a search warrant and went back to the house and found literally thousands of guns,” Brooks said. “They secured the scene and called everybody in. We’ve been there ever since and we’ll probably be working on this into next week.

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The sheriff said many of the guns looked like they’d been stored for years.

“There’s no evidence that he even used them,” Brooks said. “There’s no evidence that he was selling them – he just wanted them. His house looked like that hoarders program on TV.”

here's another news link

Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks says the seized guns, ammunition, and hundreds of other items were all found on a single property off of Highway 9 outside of Pageland city limits.

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When asked what Nicholson was doing with so many guns, Brooks said, "(he) looks like a gun hoarder to be honest with you." Deputies have found no evidence that he ever sold any of the guns.

"You know he just had 7,000 guns," Brooks said. "99.9 percent are hunting rifles and shot guns."

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Rusty Fender told WBTV he had lived next to Nicholson his entire life and never suspected the hoarding of weapons.

And yes, you read that right .... the most amazing thing here is not that this dude was buying and hoarding stolen hunting rifles by the thousands for no apparent reason. That's nothing. The real takeaway is that his neighbor's name is Rusty Fender.

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[cirrhosis]

holy fucking shit

that's a lot of guns and other stuff

 

[Hugstable]

lol what the hell, this guy getting ready for his own personal war or something?

 

[NCR Redslayer]

I guess people can hoard pretty much everything.

 

[SimleuqiR]

This country has a serious problem with guns.

 

[Wyndstryker]

So this is how some people's video game inventories will look IRL

 

[Hip Hop]

That's crazy, so much money right there.

 

[JDSN]

Thats my Fallout New Vegas shack.

 

[SummitAve]

Hoarders spoilers come on!

 

[SolidChamp]

Dat der be 'Mericuh, over 9,000.

 

[Bodacious]

I guess people can hoard pretty much everything.

Sounds like he was buying up stuff taken in burglaries that it turned out nobody really wanted. Gang members aren't too interested in a farmer's deer rifle or deer heads.

 

[Bare Grills]

Rusty Fender is a pretty cool name

 

[EvetS]

If only these guns had guns...

 

[Volimar]

Terrifying.

“There were so many guns we quit counting after a while,” the sheriff said.

It started getting hard so we said fuck it.

 

[sunshine and gasoline]

He was clearly preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

 

[riotous]

Rusty Fender is a pretty cool name

He's no Dick Trickle.

 

[Volimar]

He's no Dick Trickle.

fail

 

[Jarrod38]

Even the two gun shops near me don't even that many combined.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

 

[soco]

Was he arming a militia or preventing one from forming?

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Oh damn, Obomber is really attacking our rights to form armed militias.

 

[7DollarHagane]

Guess it's just hoarding behavior. Did they say if the majority of them were loaded or unloaded?

 

[Bare Grills]

He's no Dick Trickle.

Apparently the guy

Spoiler

shot himself

.

 

[Bodacious]

He's no Dick Trickle.

Dick Trickle was real good friends with Rich Bickle.

 

[AcademicSaucer]

 

[SwiftDeath]

500 chainsaws too?

Someone's been watching too much Evil Dead

 

[Crimson_Gold]

500 chainsaws too?

Someone's been watching too much Evil Dead

How else was he going to defeat the bath salt zombies?

 

[PeskyToaster]

Sounds like standard hoarder behavior except with guns. He didn't use any of this stuff. Just kept it

 

[Crud]

Fucking loser hoarder.

 

[Lord_Byron28]

Now if only we registered guns and had a program similar to DMV where you must pass a certain number of requirements(such as gun training and safety programs, background checks, mental and personal health review, etc.) to obtain a license to own a gun. Then once you purchase a gun after presenting a valid license at an approved retailer you register it, just like you would do in the process of getting a vehicle. Only thing I would add in as well is a gun buy back program.

It's sad that something so simple could be dramatically mitigated by this easy solution that allows people to own guns but works to prevent irrational people from obtaining guns.

 

[quesalupa]

That's quite a thing to hoard.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Now if only we registered guns and had a program similar to DMV where you must pass a certain number of requirements(such as gun training and safety programs, background checks, mental and personal health review, etc.) to obtain a license to own a gun. Then once you purchase a gun after presenting a valid license at an approved retailer you register it, just like you would do in the process of getting a vehicle.

Well driving is considered a privilege and gun ownership a basic right under the law/constitution. So you'll need to amend the laws/constitution to convert gun ownership from a basic right to a privilege.

 

[J-Rzez]

Rusty Fender is a pretty cool name

That was the name of the "traffic guy" on an area radio station here. He was caught numerous times stealing from retail stores just to throw everything in the trash when he got outside the store. He enjoyed the rush... lol.

 

[Darrenf]

What the fuck.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Something tells me we're going to find he was trafficking those guns. Banning specific guns is not going to do anything to stop gun crime. If you want to decrease crime in high crime areas like inner cities, you have to stop the flow of cheap illegal guns that are pumped in underground. Often from people like this fucktard, into cities like Chicago.

 

[Aurongel]

Fallout 4 viral marketing at work here.

 

[Walpurgis]

Sounds like standard hoarder behavior except with guns. He didn't use any of this stuff. Just kept it

Yup, just a regular hoarder. However, it should not be possible for a single man to hoard this many guns without authorities knowing. The fact that they didn't know until he literally left the stuff in plain view is sad. It's clear he made no effort to hide his habit. They're very lucky that he's not a domestic terrorist.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

He's a true American hero, removing guns from getting into the publics hands.


He should get a commendation.

 

[Diablos]

No concern whatsoever for safety in storing these weapons. Surely he can be cited for this if nothing else. I'd be sweating bullets (no pun intended) if I were one of the cops having to look through all those weapons. It looks like a fucking booby trap.

I sincerely doubt this individual is just a hoarder.

 

[RustyNails]

They finally arrested Wayne LaPierre, I see.

 

[Limited Edition]

Sounds like more of a hoarder situation that anything. That's a metric shit load of firearms.

 

[Furyous]

Is he trying to fund his own PMC? Only way this makes sense is if he went out in the field and fultoned a bunch of stuff or he's fielding his own PMC around the world.

 

[Darkangel]

Brent Nicholson: Future Leader of the Resistance.

 

[MiniBossBattle]

Looks like someone messing with a Fallout mod.

 

[Frozenprince]

Yup, just a regular hoarder. However, it should not be possible for a single man to hoard this many guns without authorities knowing. The fact that they didn't know until he literally left the stuff in plain view is sad. It's clear he made no effort to hide his habit. They're very lucky that he's not a domestic terrorist.

I mean not really. You still need bullets for those guns, and it's much harder to buy those, stolen or not, wholesale.

 

[PBalfredo]

“There’s no evidence that he even used them,” Brooks said. “There’s no evidence that he was selling them – he just wanted them. His house looked like that hoarders program on TV.”

And with that, everything went from sounding super insidious to just kinda sad.

 

[Radec]

That's a nice place to be in when zombie apocalypse breaks out.

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

I mean not really. You still need bullets for those guns, and it's much harder to buy those, stolen or not, wholesale.

It's not though

 

[Frozenprince]

It's not though

Yeah and to buy those in bulk you need to have a mailing address and funds, and barring him having a dump point without his name attached you can put 2x2 together.

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

Yeah and to buy those in bulk you need to have a mailing address and funds, and barring him having a dump point without his name attached you can put 2x2 together.

It wouldn't matter if he was buying thousands of rounds a day and having them shipped to his house. It's perfectly legal and no one would check up on it.

What if he was loading his own brass?