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stairman · 1 month ago

Morgan has no known criminal history and the motive for his activity has not been determined, officials said.

I guess if you have a collection of 48 cars you should have all of your gas and tires confiscated because of the possibility that you may drive drunk oneday and kill somebody.

Butkus · 1 month ago

Hmmm I think that having 200,000 rounds of ammo and several illegally modified weapons is a bit different than owning some cars

Peter · 1 month ago

The modifications were related to California gun laws not federal laws according to the ATF Press release. Meaning he had not modified a firearms into a fully atomatic type firearm only into something that California considers scary, but can be purchased in the other states since the expiration of the federal assaul weapons ban over five years ago.

the1stcrash · 1 month ago

So.... if this guy was bringing all these weapons and ammo in to sell them, how come he had them all at his house?

Sounds to me like he was just stock piling because he knew he lived in a state that would most likely be at the forefront of taking away his rights.

Where do you people get all this stuff about selling to Mexico? I saw no mention of anything like that.

1EasyTarget · 1 month ago

They pulled it out of their diseased little minds, made it up out of whole cloth, based it on what the whacked out legislature has been feeding them, take your pick. There was nothing in the story to base it on so it must have come out of someones butt.

termite2009 · 1 month ago

My original posting disappeared so I'm repeating it. For all the NRA supporters please don't get David Morgan confused with the guy next door that collects a few weapons. This guy is going to another state to buy weapons and extensive amounts of ammo so he can make some money. He isn't getting some type of rifle that is restricted in Ca for his own personal use. He's stocking up on ammo and guns for 1) selling them to anyone that will pay the price including criminals and gangs - both U.S. and Mexican or 2) He's mentally unstable and thinks he needs to stock up to fight the cops and other intruders. Either way, he is not what the second amendment should be protecting. Keep in mind that nearly all the amendments have some sort of restriction on them. Free speech is limited to the context and environment the words are spoken. Unlimited ownership of powerful assault rifles, machine guns and other military type weapons are either illegal or very restricted so the second amendment has restrictions. The fourth amendment has several exceptions to the need for a search warrant. So save the NRA protective stance for someone that deserves it. This guy was nothing more than a person wanting to make money on the sales of weapons or, even worse, an unstable nut case stocking up weapons and ammo.

Peter · 1 month ago

Your use of the term powerful assault rifle leads me to question how much you even know about firearms and the laws regulating their possession. By definition an assault rifle can operate in a full automatic or burst mode and uses a medium powered cartridge. Federal laws no longer prohibit the acquiring of what many term an assault weapon, which is a term made up by the anti-gun groups to demonize firearms that resemble military weapons. Furthermore, federal law also allows for those that pass a background check and get apporval from state and local law enforcement to legally own machineguns. However, in California the state and local approval is normally with held except for the Hollywood studios. What is the basis for your implications that Morgan intended to sell to gangs or to Mexican cartels? The ATF press release mentions the modifications as being relevant to California laws, which leads me to think Morgan was trying to get something that CA doesn't allow him to have because of its perceived lethality. I am not condoning his alleged use of fraudulently obtained ID, but considering the resources used to investigate him I suspect this arrest is being hyped way out of proportion.

Peter · 1 month ago

I hope whoever is responsible for the malfunctioning new web site is canned. The original article with all the comments will not display and the comments were not brought over to this location, which is the same article as the original.

youreonyourown · 1 month ago

I agree , this thing needs a lot of work .

1EasyTarget · 1 month ago

I agree. 30 seconds to change pages. 2 minutes to post a comment. Disorganized placement, unnecessary animations and video.

Your old format had a lot going for it in that it was easy to use, fast and mostly text based. If you can't speed this mess up, you will lose the few remaining viewers.

crazed_z06 · 1 month ago

This guy gives law-abiding gun owners a bad name..

AznGirlzRHot · 1 month ago

I never believe anything ATF gestapo agents say.

MohicianZ · 1 month ago

The Fed's, should not Create any law, that has any thing to do with an Americans Right to own weapons. To them I would say if I were a Judge get out of California and go on back to the District of Columbia. Which is not part of this Country. If this man did not use these weapons in the act of commiting a crime I see no law broken. ( IBelieve No Law was broken).

MaoTzu · 1 month ago

"tracked him down from his IP" get it?

MohicianZ · 1 month ago

Yeah I get it. But there is nothing around here or should I say it does not exist.

zango · 1 month ago

Great job. These Republican Loonatics are a danger to everyone else as well as themselves. The last thing they need is an arsenal.

UnmaskedAvenger · 1 month ago

right = left

a loon is a loon, and baseless name-calling shows stupidity...no matter what side you're on.

Rezqewr · 1 month ago

And you know this individual's political beliefs how, exactly?

Zango the troll has spoken out of his (derriere), as usual.

Good job getting this douchebag off the streets, ATF.

Barbara Cummings · 1 month ago

Right down the street. Who'd a known? Just b/c he has no record doesn't mean anything. Most of these tea bag types are novice protestors. They love all wars so haven't been in the streets the last 8 years. They have been smirking right along with 43, beck, limpbough et al. In fact, even tho bush was destroying the economy they stayed home and quiet until, glory me, we elected a scary Black man!

1EasyTarget · 1 month ago

Bush derangement syndrome.

This is level of mindless, baseless hatred is what is truly scary.

gallimaufry · 1 month ago

i really do not like people like this. it gives every law abiding gun owner the creeps

missionaccomplished · 1 month ago

One less rightwing yahoo flogger on signonsandiego.com

mikem011359 · 1 month ago

He is a criminal. Not someone from the rightwing.

MaoTzu · 1 month ago

Same thing...

Rezqewr · 1 month ago

Ignore the trolls, mike.

deronmoped · 1 month ago

I wonder how much other stuff is smuggled into the Left Coast? Guns are probably not the only things people can make lots of money on.

I wonder what the black market is like for cigarettes, gasoline, booze, incandescent bulbs, plasma TV's, handicap parking placards...

Deron.

MohicianZ · 1 month ago

Do you know how hard it is to stop a rock after it starts rolling down hill?

Butkus · 1 month ago

Depends on the size of the rock

UnmaskedAvenger · 1 month ago

Build the fence!!!....to keep guns from flooding into Mexico and straight into the hands of drug-cartels!

mikem011359 · 1 month ago

This stuff was headed to Tijuana......

reconranger · 1 month ago

Mexican drug cartel weapons.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread...

gutinomas · 1 month ago

reconranger-are you saying the Welsh are joining the Mexican Cartel?? Hilarious!!

missionaccomplished · 1 month ago

Reconstitutedranger is hilarious.

reconranger · 1 month ago

I never stated anything like that. The web link was just for information and real photos of the military grade weapons that are used within the cartels. What are you smoking?

reconranger · 1 month ago

I never stated anything like that. The web link was just for information and real photos of the military grade weapons that are used within the cartels. What are you smoking?

tuck52 · 1 month ago

Maybe he was just trying to supplement his income in a tight economy!

Butkus · 1 month ago

Educate me please. What is a teabag type and how do you know he is one?

MaoTzu · 1 month ago

Hmm I wonder what tipped them off? Maybe he was some violence spouting wingnut here on Signon and they tracked him down from his IP. Hope so.

MohicianZ · 1 month ago

Do you really of these comments are violent,or sound wingnut. If so go back your tree and set in it,even though it is beatle riden, maybe they won't cut it down. Yhey will just zap the whole tree with electric like the termite people use to kill termites.

maverick2 · 1 month ago

UnmaskedAvenger, put your mask back on so you don't embarrass yourself.