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Federal agents are trying to determine how a suspected Ohio white supremacist with a felony conviction for manslaughter acquired a cache of 18 assault weapons and other firearms, along with high-capacity magazines and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition, according to federal law enforcement officials and court documents reviewed by NBC News.

According to the documents, FBI agents who searched Schmidt’s sporting goods store and four trailers behind it, found a stash of weapons that included AR-15 assault rifles, Ruger and Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistols, bulletproof body armor and high-capacity magazines as well as ammunition.

The agents also discovered evidence of Schmidt’s ties to the neo-Nazi movement, documents show. Among the evidence seized, according to search warrants, was a video of a national convention of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement; bumper stickers of the National Alliance party, another neo-Nazi group; a “Jewish 500” list -- a supposed roster of Jewish-owned businesses -- and paraphernalia from the “Waffen SS,” Adolf Hitler’s Nazi military force in Germany from the early 1930s through World War II, according to the search warrants.

A federal law enforcement official, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, said that FBI counterterrorism agents involved in the case had picked up evidence that Schmidt may have been planning attacks against Jewish and civil rights groups in the Detroit area. “This is an active investigation,” said another federal law enforcement official when asked if Schmidt was believed to have been working with any others in the neo-Nazi movement.

The law enforcement officials said the case appears to illustrate some of the gaps in current background checks for gun purchasers that President Barack Obama has proposed closing as part of his package of executive actions and legislative proposals released this week aimed at curbing gun violence. Schmidt was charged with murder and felonious assault in 1989 after killing a Hispanic man and shooting two others with a semi-automatic pistol during a traffic dispute. He later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison. Federal officials were not immediately able to provide information on when he was released from prison.

Droopy wrote:And? What is the point of this post?

Federal agents are trying to determine...

krose wrote:

Federal agents are trying to determine...

This is the most surprising part of this story. You mean there are still a few federal agents who are allowed to investigate firearms violations? I can't believe it, after all the success the NRA and their congressional puppets have had in hobbling the ATF.

Amazing.

Droopy wrote:
What an utter lying crock...

The NRA is the single most pro-law enforcement and anti-crime group in the nation. In the name of...are you even lucid, Krose? Are you still coupled to 4D space-time? Are you with us?

The only problem that exists are criminals, not inanimate objects, and criminals, at great loss to our society, long ago became more of the Left's noble savages, icons of utopian scorn of an imperfect social order, and subjects of speculative therapeutic experimentation. Coextensive with this, the very same Left cheered, supported, glorified, and abetted the sexual revolution, the delegitimizing and devaluation of marriage, family, child-rearing, the intact, two-parent family, while extolling the virtues of the recreational use of powerful psychoactive drugs.

The results? Vast social pathology, a tremendous rise in violent crime since the mid-sixties, and a great deal of gun violence (although guns actually aren't used in the commission of most violent crimes, and "assault weapons" or, with more conceptual coherence and linguistic precision, military-like rifles, are almost never used in such crimes).

Droopy wrote:What an utter lying crock...

The NRA is the single most pro-law enforcement and anti-crime group in the nation. In the name of...are you even lucid, Krose? Are you still coupled to 4D space-time? Are you with us?

Droopy wrote:What an utter lying crock...

And? What is the point of this post?