Jo Cox suspect bought gun manuals from US neo-Nazis, group claims

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

The man arrested over the killing of the MP Jo Cox bought books from a US-based neo-Nazi group, including guides on how to build homemade guns and explosives, according an anti-hate campaign group in the US.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published receipts that appeared to show Thomas Mair bought, among other books, a manual on how to make a homemade pistol from the National Alliance.

The receipts, some of which date back to the 1990s, showed Mair spent more than $620 (£436) on literature from the group, which advocates the creation of an all-white homeland and the eradication of Jewish people.

He bought books that instructed readers on the “chemistry of powder & explosives”, “incendiaries”, and a work called Improvised Munitions Handbook. The handbook included detailed instructions on constructing a pipe pistol using parts available in DIY stores.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/17/jo-cox-suspect-thomas-mair-bought-gun-manuals-from-us-neo-nazis-group-claims

[inanna]

1. Thanks for this post. n/t

[Darb]

2. Hey gun humpers, where are you? These are your allies.

The fucking skinheads love them some guns. Come defend them.

[Angel Martin]

11. ok, I want someone to explain to me

that if a mentally disabled, never employed, socially isolated loner can obtain a functional firearm in the UK, why anyone would believe that laws restricting law abiding gun owners will keep suicide jihadists from getting guns either there or here ?

any "gun control" is just penalizing people who follow the law.

It will have no effect on terrorists or any other criminal.

[IronLionZion]

3. Anyone who looks like Thomas Mair should be considered suspicious

and treated to some life-crushing discrimination until I feel comfortable in figuring this out. It's important to focus on the shooter's ethnicity and religion and his associations with a country that is known for killing a lot of people (USA!)

[cynzke]

5. Bet He is on the FBI's Watch List!

[IronLionZion]

8. In that case, he'll have no trouble procuring more guns

[surrealAmerican]

4. This makes us a nation that enables international terrorism.

Should the British launch military strikes against us under these circumstances?

"We have met the enemy and he is us."

[cynzke]

6. DON'T LOOK NOW....US DOMESTIC TERROR GROUPS ARE JUST AS BAD....

As ISIS in promoting hatred and violence. The only difference is that these home grown terror groups lack the courage to act out on their demented philosophy, so far. It take a "lone wolf" who is mentally ill enough to carry out his convictions.

[Abouttime]

7. Trump supporters

And tea party types. These people are terrorists and at the minimum should be barred from possessing firearms.

[lark]

9. Funny, you don't see Repugs or Drumpf tweeting/talking about this?

Where's the outrage when it's a racist who breaks the law? They just yawn because they don't care. They don't care about life or liberty, only war and the power and $$ to be gained from that. They are truly sickening folks.

[LeftyMom]

10. No money in it, exactly.

We're not going to bomb Yorkshire.