I think it's relevant to note that someone mentally unwell enough to kill another person (especially their own spouse) was able to hoard such a large amount of weapons.

I guess the rest of us are just lucky that he only wanted to kill one person, instead of several.

There are multiple articles on this situation. This particular article was written because of the somewhat unique weapons cache. Other articles will be written about mental health, without a doubt

It's almost like they want to continue to demonize normal gun owners (yes there are dozens of us left leaning gun owners). I'm kind of fucking sick of it but the rich folks that want us disarmed have enough to keep funding the meessages.

If you switch Pokemon cards to gallons of fuel it'd be more like the headline here.

But I know you're purposely missing the point anyway.

It's not a random stat like Pokemon cards. You're being obtuse. It would be more like "Woman with extensive collection of flares, matches, and gasoline burns down house" and "man who owned numerous police scanners and maps of escape routes evades police."

The "actual situation" is that he had a collection of 47 weapons that enable murder and he murdered someone with one of them. Your analogies are absurd.

Your examples are extremely dismissive of a link that is actually there. He owned a fuckload of guns and used them to murder his wife. Not only are your crimes less serious, they're not related to the hobby at all.

Regardless, the people claiming "what's the big deal, so he owned a bunch of guns" clearly have no idea how it looks outside of pro-gun circles (and outside of America).

If he had been charged with sexual assault and the headline said that he owned a sex doll, you might say "so what?". If he was charged with sexual assault and he owned 48 sex dolls, you'd be treating it like a red flag.

Which she likely would've survived?

Fist*

*or knife, hammer, baseball bat, crowbar, rebar, pipe, wrench...

Yes. Too bad he had all those guns within easy reach.

If you are a hobbyist shooter then it is common to buy ammo in bulk. And if you've never done competitive shooting or even just going to the range once a month, you may not realize how fast the ammo is used up.

No problem that exists today. Stocking up on ammo is for the unpredictable future. You only need one bullet for a regular murder right?

26,000 is a lot, but with no other context it's not an indicator of "crazy".

As others have said: ammo is cheaper in bulk. It doesn't "go bad" if stored properly, and you need different rounds for different guns. And for a while it was hard to find -- you stocked up when you found it because you didn't know when it was going to be available again.

1000 shells of 12 ga -- that's two cases, I have to drive a long way to find them, and I shoot trap every other week. 20ish shells, 12 ga slugs -- left over from hunting I have 1050 rounds of 9mm, because I bought 3 cheap boxes of Blazer Brass on sale and that's what I shoot at the range. 800ish of 7.62x54r -- 2 spam cans, for the same reason. Probably 1500ish rounds of .22lr -- 3 boxes of 500 rounds... same reason.

I'm not a nut, but if the cops raided my house the headline would be "found with over 4000 rounds of ammunition!!!!"

Ammunition prices fluctuate drastically with global and national events. In 2021 when COVID hit 9mm cost roughly 70 cents a round. Today it's around 19 cents a round. There's a buy cheap stack deep philosophy practiced when buying ammo.

A competition shooter or someone attending a class can easily shoot 1,000 rounds over a weekend. Buying in large volume when prices are low means that weekend costs $190 not $700.

What if you have to wage a war against emu’s?