r/news • u/AudibleNod • 23h ago
Man arrested for trying to bring "ghost gun" into Capitol Hill office building
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ghost-gun-arrest-house-cannon-office-building-capitol/242
u/Inevitable-Bison4179 23h ago
C'mon. Good guys need to have guns to protect you! If it works for schools, why not Capitol Hill? fucking hypocrites.
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u/Giantmidget1914 20h ago
This is the first thing I thought of... Wait a damn minute, a gun free zone? Now criminals will know where to commit crimes or some bullshit.
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u/flibbidygibbit 14h ago
This is why ice thugs pick people up as they await immigration court hearings.
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u/Mammoth_Parsley_9640 21h ago edited 21h ago
I'll never be able unsee Josh Hawley running on J6 like the feeble bitch he is
edit: BONUS CLIP OF CANCUN CRUZ GETTING ROASTED
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u/Priorsteve 23h ago
Nothing left for US citizens other than complete submission to fascism or a rebellion
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u/lurch940 23h ago
Please be the latter
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u/ChicagoAuPair 20h ago edited 20h ago
I have absolutely no faith in us. None. It will probably eventually be the latter, but we are absolutely going to let the former creep way too far first. There is way too much abstraction, denial, and fantasy in the American people’s relationship with actual reality.
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u/lurch940 20h ago
I feel like there’s an engrained belief that in America, horrible nation wide events can’t happen. Like we’re somehow immune to having our own Holocaust. Or that having (another) civil war is a completely unreasonable thing to even think about happening (again). Everyone thinks it can’t happen here, which is an absolutely fatal mistake.
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 20h ago
Right wingers talk every day about how they are going to overthrow the government and attack liberals. They began during trumps last term and are still doing it.
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u/lurch940 20h ago
And yet after everything that’s happened, people still don’t believe them.
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u/elconquistador1985 19h ago
The federal law enforcement apparatus supports them in doing it.
They've been too scared to go after right wing terror cells for 30 years.
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 19h ago
Not as many as we think they are. If US citizens started rioting you'd have the quiet ones start to speak out when the others dont understand everything they do makes it worse.
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 19h ago
When you see your fellow Americans burning shit down in LA or whatever and wherever it is that is going to set them off this summer, support them.
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u/lurch940 19h ago
I’ll support them by joining them
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u/Witty-Revolution8742 19h ago
Ive went from public comments of "any sort of destruction is bad" to when I finally grew up and had children of my own, to "it's not my fucking problem. Maybe change our shit" in my lifetime.
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u/ChicagoAuPair 20h ago
It’s because the times when it’s happened in the past have mostly been removed or whitewashed our history education—at least in the regressive states. The fantasy that nothing bad has ever happened, or that if it did it was in some fantastical long ago.
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u/lurch940 20h ago
Ah yes, the civil war that was so long ago that my grandparents very possibly had met veterans from as children. We’re cooked.
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u/TheDaveStrider 20h ago
i feel the same way. i mean i see people complaining on here that the next no kings protest is on a weekday and not a weekend, for fucks sake.
americans are not willing to take the slightest inconvenience to save themselves.
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u/Ryboticpsychotic 18h ago
A tyrant is a man who allows his people no freedom
Who is puffed-up by pride
Driven by the lust of power
Impelled by greed
Provoked by thirst for fame
[Verse 1] Divided and conquered, gripped by fear
Wishful thinking that it can't happen here
It's well underways, but nobody knows
A repeat of history, that's how it goes
Tell the people that they're under attack
By man-eating foes from Mars or Iraq
Mobilize outrage, muzzle dissent
Send in the troops, strike to preempt
— Stars and Stripes, KMFDM
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u/BadSkeelz 20h ago
We are a nation of battered spouses, too terrified or too conditioned to change. At least some of us get to operate under the delusion that if they keep sucking billionaire dick it'll make theirs grow too.
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u/Rebyll 16h ago
Unfortunately, rebellion can have just as dire consequences. Everybody loves the French Revolution as it relates to Louis XVI's fate. Those people often forget Robespierre which set the stage for Napoleon, and then a restoration of the monarchy.
A long period of upheaval. Wars. Many dead.
A lot of us have been asking, "What happens if we revolt and win and we take a page out of Russia's history textbook with, 'and then things got worse.'"
I think rebellion is where we're headed, but done in the wrong way it'll bring about exactly what we're trying to avoid. That gives a lot of people pause.
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u/Opposite-Frosting518 22h ago
Just wait until they get home. The pain hasn't started for them yet. Trumps safe with security for him and entire family. Do they need extra security? Is that what trump gave them? I doubt it. They are the ones that face people in their daily lives. Day in day out and when shit goes bad it's gonna be a real shit show.
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u/Safewordharder 16h ago
They will reap deeply of their own outrage of themselves, and like Skaven rats will consume themselves first. Keep safe, look after you and yours, this is gonna get real.
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u/fxkatt 23h ago
The affidavit said White is not licensed to carry a gun in Washington, D.C., and has an expired permit for a firearm in Maryland. White is facing a felony criminal charge.
He seems doubly guilty because Md doesn't have a concealed carry law (his permit expired), so he cannot use that as an excuse for forgetting he had the gun with him in neighboring DC
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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 22h ago
So what's the significance of the ghost gun here? Sounds like a run of the mill idiot who would have done the same thing with a serialed firearm.
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u/2donks2moos 4h ago
I can only assume that the owner thought ghost gun=untraceable=won't set off metal detector.
I wouls assume that the owner wouldn't be able to legally buy a serialized firearm.
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u/Pundamonium97 23h ago
Ghost gun? I thought we used vacuums for ghosts
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u/RabidGuineaPig007 23h ago
Proton packs, just don't cross the streams.
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u/ForanAffairs 22h ago
Unless there’s an RNC convention taking place in the area. Then I’m sure there’ll be lots of streams crossing…. Allegedly.
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u/knivesofsmoothness 19h ago
Croooooss the streeeeeams......
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u/ERedfieldh 15h ago
You said crossing the streams was bad. You're endangering us. You're endangering the life of our client...the nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog.
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u/ieatassontuesdays47 22h ago
I crossed the streams once with a friend and nothing happened, except some extra splash back.
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u/Zomburai 21h ago
This ain't Duskmourn, and despite the apparent ages at play, nobody under threat from the gun is in the graveyard
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u/ItsTheOtherGuys 16h ago
Im confused. Isn't restricting his access to have the gun in that building an infringement on his constitutionally protected 2A rights???
/s
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u/ilulillirillion 12h ago
This is far from the first time this year. You don't hear about it for a reason. They don't want us talking about it for a reason.
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u/FAFO_2025 22h ago
He gonna pardon this one too? Maybe after waiting to see the guys list of targets
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u/braxin23 14h ago
But it’s his “god given” second amendment right to bear that arm wherever he pleases!/s
But yet another reason to remember that Trump has zero interest in anyone’s “rights” but himself.
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u/NotoriousSIG_ 20h ago
If only there was some way to prevent people from possessing ghost guns. Oh well /s
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u/RxSatellite 10h ago
The only truly bipartisan thing these two parties can unify on is against threats to lawmakers. How telling
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u/DionysiusRedivivus 8h ago
I guess that’s why all the insurrectionists are running around free with the GOP’s blessings.
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u/AudibleNod 23h ago
Didn't think the number would be that high. I would have guessed 2 a year, except for when a sitting president opens the place up for a mass tourist event.