California arrested a man last month for the high crime of owning about 250 firearms, a million rounds of ammunition and a few cans. In most states that would make the man a great neighbor. In Texas it would make him a very eligible bachelor to the ladies. Unfortunately, the statists in California don’t have a lot of love for the little people owning effective defensive firearms.
Rob Bonta, the California Attorney General, shared some photos of the unnamed Richmond, California, man’s collection. Most of his stuff looked pretty nice.
A million rounds of ammo though? I know a guy who has a whole wall of .50 caliber ammo cans stacked six deep, probably 120 at least, along with a couple of dozen .30 caliber cans and another couple of dozen other larger ammo cans up to 20mm (?). He says he has less than 150 thousand rounds of center-fire ammo. Maybe the man in California had a lot of rimfire ammo.
While the sheer number of guns causes the average nongun owning Californian to piddle themselves, for gun owners it’s impressive but not incontinence provoking. Think about it: 3,000 magazines sounds impressive until you consider how he had a couple of hundred magazine-fed guns. All a sudden, fifteen mags per gun doesn’t sound so impressive. I mean, who hasn’t ordered one or two of those 100-magazine cases of PMags from Magpul anyway? To say nothing of Magpul’s awesome Glock-compatible pistol mags.
As for 250 guns? If the man had bought a gun every month for twenty years, that’s 240 guns. If you have the spare cash to do that, there are worse investments one could make (such as crypto at times).
Here’s the story from Yahoo.
A man in Richmond, California, was arrested last month after authorities found an illegal cache of 248 guns and 1 million rounds of ammo in his home, the state attorney general said on Thursday.
Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement that the man, who was not named, was legally prohibited from owning guns in California.
Law-enforcement officials who searched the man’s home on January 31 found 11 military-style machine guns, 133 handguns, 37 rifles, 60 assault rifles, seven shotguns, and 3,000 large-capacity magazines, Bonta said.
California’s likely going to try to crucify this guy. However, given a number of U.S. Supreme Court cases pending, if this man hires a good attorney, California might not be able to make those charges stick. If the guy could afford 250 pretty nice guns and a million rounds of ammo, he can probably afford the best legal defense money can buy.
