34 Guns Down, Millions To Go.

arakboss · May 21, 2024

Over 3 dozen guns, red phosphorus seized during police raid in O'Brien - KOBI-TV NBC5 / KOTI-TV NBC2

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. – Two people are in jail after police found five pounds of red phosphorus, 34 guns including four suppressors, six blasting caps and detonating cord during a raid at an O’Brien house Thursday. According to the Grants Pass Police Department, 57-year-old Kurtis Kerns Korff...

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They should rehome these guns.

MikeInOr · May 22, 2024

Are blasting caps and det cord illegal?

I don't think there is any control on red phosphorus?

The real story is the 1/4 lb of Meth. 36 guns should only be a problem if one of the two had a prior felony. Since they DEA found a 1/4 lb of meth I would guess the chance of a prior felony being quite high.

But I could be wrong:
"It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally to possess or distribute red phosphorus, white phosphorus, or hypophosphorous acid, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, these substances will be used to illegally manufacture methamphetamine."

I also found det chord and blasting caps are both considered high explosives.

It kind of sounds like the two individuals are pretty well screwed!

There was nothing I could see in the weapon cache that looked all that valuable or rare. I won't loose any sleep if they are melted down.

Dozer99 · May 22, 2024

State saw nearly 40% increase in overdose deaths over 2019 and during first half of 2020 as CDC links U.S. increase to pandemic disruptions
Source: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ERD/Pages/Oregon-trends-with-U.S.-in-accelerated-drug-overdoses.aspx
And yet they still make this about the guns! Especially when gun violence is trending down over the last 40 years.
Source: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/query/765cd8a1-b204-4391-bee0-ca9fd6e48cf0?page=3

sealine · May 22, 2024

They should re-home these guns?

If they had 5lbs of red phosphorus, more than likely they're cooking meth and God knows what else in the environment those guns were in.

You'd take your face and rub it all over the stocks of those rifles? I'll take a hard pass... :s0112:

The Heretic · May 22, 2024

arakboss said:
They should rehome these guns.

All of it

IMO - there is nothing they found/had that should be illegal.

That said, one has to wonder what they were doing with the explosives and flammables?

I wonder how good phosphorous is for burning stumps?

Slobray · May 23, 2024

sealine said:
They should re-home these guns?

If they had 5lbs of red phosphorus, more than likely they're cooking meth and God knows what else in the environment those guns were in.

You'd take your face and rub it all over the stocks of those rifles? I'll take a hard pass...

I've been in Bio Management for a few years now and have deconned more meth labs, meth and fentanyl houses/apts than I can count, so yeah, I'd take every one of those guns.

Ray