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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 04:26 PM Feb 2013

Man with high-powered rifles and ‘tank buster’ bullets arrested for posting liberal ‘hit list’

Police in Clarkstown, New York have confiscated a cache of high-powered weapons and body armor from a man who was arrested for posting death threats against against many Democratic politicians and every liberal supporter of President Barack Obama.

According to WCBS, 49-year-old Larry Mulqueen was arraigned on Thursday on charges of “making terroristic threats, illegally possessing weapons and harassment.”

Mulqueen’s landlady had tipped off police after she found a “hit list” posted on Facebook that threatened Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) and all members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

The Facebook posting said that all of the president’s follower were “traitor scum” and promised “death to them all.”

Nyack-Piermont Patch reported that police searched Mulqueen’s home and found two high-powered rifles, two bayonets, a sword, a knuckle knife, body armor and ammunition. Included in the 100 rounds of ammunition were 27 so-called “tank buster” .50 caliber armor-piercing shells.

Previous criminal convictions meant that it was illegal for Mulqueen to possess the weapons.

“We didn’t want a situation where something did happen and we looked back and it was said ‘well, that law enforcement agency had information and warnings, why did they do nothing about it?” Clarkstown Police Sgt. Glenn Cummings explained to WCBS.

More at: Raw Story (http://s.tt/1A6FV)

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Man with high-powered rifles and ‘tank buster’ bullets arrested for posting liberal ‘hit list’ (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2013 OP
Police, worried about being caught out, decides reluctantly, to enforce law. rgbecker Feb 2013 #1
Another stupid Baggerpublican SummerSnow Feb 2013 #2
For every Mulqueen that is caught, 100 go free... Cooley Hurd Feb 2013 #3
Where is the .50 cal. gun? Cartridges but no gun. IADEMO2004 Feb 2013 #4

rgbecker

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1. Police, worried about being caught out, decides reluctantly, to enforce law.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 06:10 PM
Feb 2013

At least there are a few good landladies out there.

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