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Texas GOP’s Greg Abbott met border militia leader busted days later with explosives
Travis Gettys - RawStory
31 Oct 2014 at 12:36 ET



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Border militia leader K.C. Massey briefly met and posed for a photo with Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott four days before he was arrested on federal weapons charges.

The 48-year-old Massey was charged last week with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Court documents released this week show that agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized weapons, ammunition, a ballistic helmet, and suspected ammonium nitrate – the same explosive used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Agents found an AK-47 with six loaded magazines, a loaded handgun, and fuel along with the ammunition and explosive materials in Massey’s hotel room during the Oct. 20 arrest, reported the San Antonio Express-News.

Massey, who described himself as the commanding officer of the “American Patriot” militia group patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, was convicted of burglary in 1988.

A photo taken Oct. 16 at a Brownsville restaurant shows the militia leader meeting with Greg Abbott, the Texas attorney general running for governor against Democrat Wendy Davis.

Massey is wearing an “Abbott for Governor” sticker on his...

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