Ark. doc arrested after large weapons cache found

[Are_grits_groceries]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - A doctor who had been sanctioned by Arkansas' medical board was arrested after federal agents found grenades, grenade launchers and more than $1 million worth of machine guns in and around his home. But authorities said Friday the arrest is not tied to a recent bombing that critically wounded the board's chairman.

Dr. Randeep Mann, an internal medicine specialist from London, Ark., was arrested by federal agents Wednesday. He appeared Thursday before a federal magistrate on a charge of possession of an unregistered firearm and was scheduled for a bond hearing Monday.

In an affidavit, David Oliver, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, says ATF agents and state police officers interviewed Mann on Feb. 4, the day a bomb exploded in the West Memphis driveway of Dr. Trent Pierce. Pierce remains in critical condition in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital.

Oliver says Mann showed investigators a grenade launcher that day that he legally owned.

State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said he couldn't say if the Feb. 4 interview was part of the West Memphis bombing investigation because it is ongoing. But ATF agent Austin Banks said Mann's arrest was not tied to the bombing investigation.

In the affidavit, Oliver says agents searched Mann's home Wednesday in London, 175 miles west of West Memphis, after city workers found a canister of 98 grenades—the kind used in grenade launchers—buried in a field near the home and notified the Pope County sheriff's office.

Agents found five more canisters in a shop attached to Mann's garage, two grenade launchers in a safe in his basement, and 110 fully automatic machine guns valued at more than $1 million located throughout his home. It could not be determined whether 17 of the machine guns were legally registered to Mann, the affidavit states.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96OQGLG0&show_article=1&catnum=1

Yeeeeesh!!

[Botany]

1. Let me guess he is a "Christian"

fucking nutball

[Belial]

5. could be Muslim?

[rvablue]

7. No, most likely a Palin-loving, Rush-worshiping, hate-filled so-called "Christian."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. First name not a Muslim one

at least not like any Muslim name I've heard before.

[Robeysays]

10. no. probably for zombies

or something. like the lead singer of blues travelers.

[Clear Blue Sky]

17. Randeep Hooda is an Indian actor, Hindu. (regarding the first name)

So anyone who wants to blow things up must be Christian in your book?

[alsame]

2. Maybe I'm naive, but I

had no idea it was legal for people to own grenade launchers. This is quite frightening.

[rvablue]

6. I had the exact same reaction.

:wtf:

[alsame]

8. What is the rationale for this being legal? As far as I know, grenade

launchers are not used for hunting. :scared:

[benEzra]

12. Hunting is irrelevant. Collectors can get Federal authorization to own them.

Grenade launchers are as tightly controlled as howitzers and bombs (they are restricted as "Destructive Devices" under the Title 2/Class III provisions of the National Firearms Act, and unauthorized possession is a 10-year felony), but collectors can get special Federal authorization to possess one. This guy is toast because it looks like he possessed about 100 things he wasn't authorized to own, with potential sentence of 10 years PER VIOLATION.

BTW, hunting is irrelevant as to why particular weapons are legal, because fewer than 1 in 5 U.S. gun owners hunts. Most legal weapons are nonhunting weapons.

[alsame]

15. Thank you for this information. I had absolutely no idea it

was possible to legally own these kinds of devices.
:scared:

[benEzra]

18. If you jump through enough hoops and your state allows it, yes.

Many of those items are very, very expensive, though, because there are so few of them in private hands, and many of them are decades old. Most of the tanks and field guns in private hands date from WW2, as do a lot of the machineguns and such (though not all of them). M203 grenade launchers are newer, though.

The most-inflated prices are on automatic weapons due to the 1986 closure of the NFA machinegun registry in 1986. As a result, an AK-47 (a real one, not a U.S.-market civilian lookalike) goes for a couple hundred dollars on the international arms market, but since there are less than 200 pre-'86 civilian tranferable AK-47's in private hands in the USA, you're looking at $17,000 and up to legally buy one here.

Grenade launchers are cheaper (few thousand, I would guess) but there is a $200 tax and separate BATFE paperwork on each grenade.

[benEzra]

11. You may own them on the same basis as 105mm howitzers, tank cannons, and bombs...

i.e., it is very, very difficult. Possession is a 10-year Federal felony outside of police/military duty unless you go through the hoops to obtain Federal authorization (BATFE Form 4), which involves an extensive Federal background check, several months of waiting, and your local chief law enforcement officer has to sign off on your application.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wbardwel/public/nfalist/nfa_faq.txt

[Ikonoklast]

3. Whoa. This guy is toast.

And so are the people that sold to him.

[movonne]

4. WTF!!!!!

[EmilyAnne]

13. Its definitely an Indian name. Could have been Hindu or Sikh. Just my opinion, of course. n/t

[SmileyRose]

14. Well thank God Saddam is dead.

That was effective.

[NNN0LHI]

16. ... a grenade launcher that day that he legally owned ... Cough

I know its for sports hunting.

I have it down pat now.

Don

[benEzra]

19. See post #12. (n/t)