The good thing is that they are generally not that bright - from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel
FBI thwarts mass shooting at Milwaukee Masonic center
A terrorist-style plot intended to kill dozens of people with automatic weapons at a Masonic center in Milwaukee was foiled this week by FBI agents, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Samy Mohamed Hamzeh discussed his plan to attack the center with two others, detailing how they would quickly and quietly kill the first people they saw and then methodically move through the building, "eliminating everyone" they encountered, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Hamzeh, 23, has been charged with possessing a machine gun and a silencer. Despite indications of an attempted act of terrorism, Hamzeh is not charged with any terrorism counts.
"We are Muslims, defending Muslim religion, we are on our own, my dear, we have organized our own group," Hamzeh said, according to the criminal complaint, adding he was confident it would trigger more attacks in the United States.
"Such operations will increase in America, when they hear about it. The people will be scared and the operations will increase, and there will be problems all over,... this will lead to people clashing with each other. This way we will be igniting it. I mean we are marching at the front of the war," he said, according to the complaint.
Acting U.S. Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad called it a "detailed plan to commit a mass shooting intended to kill dozens of people."
Owning an automatic weapon (machine gun) is not illegal but manufacturing one is very much so.
Blame the Gun Control Act of 1968 - signed into law by President Lyin' Bastard Lyndon Baines Johnson - him of the Great Society (this will have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years) and the war on poverty.
A machine gun manufactured before 1968 is perfectly legal but must be licensed and since they are relatively scarce, the market value starts at $30K and goes up rapidly. What this a-hole probably had was an illegal conversion of a semi-automatic firearm. This is something anyone reasonably mechanical can do but don't because spending ten+ years behind bars is not anything to contemplate. I hope he spends a long time behind bars.
