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mercuryblues

(15,099 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2015, 02:14 PM Oct 2015

Missing a gun

The police may have found it.

Pageland man arrested after authorities find thousands of guns piled at home


Saturday, his deputies arrested 51-year-old Brent Nicholson of Pageland after they found thousands – their best estimate is 7,000 to 10,000 – of handguns and rifles stacked at his house and in a nearby storage building. They found hundreds more at a liquor store Nicholson runs with his father and at his parents’ home, Brooks said.

“There were so many guns we quit counting after a while,” the sheriff said.

Deputies also found hunting crossbows; ammunition; taxidermed deer, elk and alligator heads; hunting mounts; tools; air compressors and more than 500 chainsaws – most of it, Brooks said, stolen. There was “so much stuff” that by 3 p.m. Saturday authorities had filled four 40-foot tractor-trailers and taken it to an armory near the sheriff’s office in Chesterfield where the thousands of items will be processed.

Nicholson, picked up by police in Monroe about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, arrived in Chesterfield County about an hour later and was in the county jail charged with possession of stolen property, Brooks said. “There’s much more to come,” he added.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article41313024.html#storylink=cpy

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Missing a gun (Original Post) mercuryblues Oct 2015 OP
On the positive side, he's keeping them off the streets uppityperson Oct 2015 #1
With all his gunz gone, it's gonna be Viagara time. Hoppy Oct 2015 #2
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