California school shooting plot foiled, assault rifles found

[jpak]

Source: ABC News

A security officer overheard a student threaten to open fire at his Southern California high school, allowing officials to thwart the plot just days after a deadly shooting in Florida, authorities said Wednesday.

The 17-year-old student at El Camino High School near the city of Whittier was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats, and his adult brother was arrested on five weapons charges after two assault rifles, 90 high-capacity magazines and other handguns were found in their home.

A security officer on Friday heard the teen "say that he was going to shoot up the school sometime in the next three weeks," Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said at a news conference.

The school reported the teen, and deputies found an assault rifle at the home registered to his 28-year-old Army veteran brother and another that was not registered, which is a felony in California, McDonnell said.

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[underpants]

1. A good guy with ears

[ehrnst]

8. Other than the term 'guy,' I agree.(nt)

[CountAllVotes]

2. Another 17 year old with a batch o'guns

Gee why am I not surprised?

At least they caught him before he had the chance to off another 50-100++++++ people with his batch o'magazines!

[BigmanPigman]

3. Thank goodness that CA has that law!

Lock them both up! 99% of gun violence is committed by men! Who makes most of the laws.....men! Why are women often the victims...men have legal GUNS!

https://www.vox.com/cards/gun-violence-facts/guns-domestic-violence-united-states-risk

[iluvtennis]

4. Agree. Lock. Them. Up.

[Voltaire2]

5. Possession of 90 magazines.

Along with an assault weapon ban there ought to be arsenal laws the strictly limit the amount of ammunition individuals can possess.

[lark]

6. Lock them both up.

Zero tolerance.

[ffr]

7. This is precisely what the Parkland #neveragain movement is about

How can our conservative politicians be any more blind to this? It is an epidemic.

The killings will continue until conservatives either finally get on board or are sent out to pasture.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. high-capacity magazines

There was a post here on DU a couple of days after the Florida shooting that linked to a NYT article about Connecticut's gun laws.

Connecticut’s sweeping gun laws did, however, require residents who already owned high-capacity magazines and assault rifles to register them with the State Police. Today, the registry lists 52,648 assault weapons. A single resident registered 179 assault weapons, while another registered more than 500,000 magazines exceeding the 10-round limit. Between 2013 and 2017, 248 people were charged with illegally possessing an assault weapon because they either failed to register an existing weapon or had bought a weapon after the law went into effect.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/nyregion/florida-shooting-parkland-gun-control-connecticut.html

Why in the world would somebody have "more than 500,000 magazines exceeding the 10-round limit"? You could take off 2 or 3 zeroes and I'd still wonder why.

[Flaleftist]

10. Maybe a dealer or manufacturer

That still sounds like a lot of inventory for either.