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Comment by rolltiide | Hacker News Reader

did anyone notice the landlord got arrested too? when you see it...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/seattle-woman-arrested...

okay I'm dying laughing here, so much win and fail at the same time.

> 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...

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.

> 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.

Just put a lightning link into your AR style rifle, and voilà, you have a full auto gun.

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.

I certainly hope that level of military response was a result of the landlord's prior weapons charges, and not simply standard protocol for a 33 yr old woman's arrest warrant for a non-violent offense.

Yeah its pretty wild because you have to have an opinion on the hacker’s case and Capital One’s negligence

Then you have to have an opinion on using a warrant on a non-target in the dwelling, and seeing the risk of renting your house out

Then you have to have an opinion on the specific weapons found and how they were acquired

An opinion on felons not being able to have a 2nd amendment right for the rest of their life for somethings that happened 30 and nearly 40 years ago

AND THEN not wanting to really advocate that when you read about the failed bomb hitman plot in 1983 that created the noncompliance, which is some ACME level wiley coyote goof

All while wondering “so were we unsafe? Would the alternative make us safer if both felons and non-felons peacefully have this kind of weaponry? People have this kind of weaponry?”

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