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> On March 12, 2025, a search warrant was executed at Sohaib’s home in Alexandria. Agents grabbed plenty of tech gear but also turned up seven firearms and 370

> On March 12, 2025, a search warrant was executed at Sohaib’s home in Alexandria. Agents grabbed plenty of tech gear but also turned up seven firearms and 370 rounds of .30 caliber ammunition. Given his former crimes, Sohaib should have had none of this. For god's sake, don't commit crimes while you're committing crimes.

paulpauper 4mo ago
Only commit one crime at a time
- vvpan 4mo ago
  Serially.
  - financetechbro 4mo ago
    Waterfall style
- thelastgallon 4mo ago
  There should be a law against committing multiple crimes at the same time.
tclancy 4mo ago
I was kind of hoping he sprinted out his back door which happened to be on a state line and then mailed his guns back to his house, just to try to cover everything.
colechristensen 4mo ago
There is a strong bias towards stupid criminals getting caught.
pretzel5297 4mo ago
> Given his former crimes, Sohaib should have had none of this. Nobody should have a personal armory.
- wahnfrieden 4mo ago
  Why
- logicchains 4mo ago
  Fortunately enough Americans have enough guns that no matter how much people like you whine about it you'll never be able to take them away.
  - Tade0 4mo ago
    Burglars take them away pretty often. Out of reported firearm thefts, most happened to those who had six or more such items.
    - loa_in_ 4mo ago
      This seems like statistical bias in measurement, but it's also likely that enthusiasts would have both more count and more valuable items while also being more likely to show them off.
  - pretzel5297 4mo ago
    Yes, because if the American army went rogue I'm sure a bunch of untrained goons cosplaying as John Wick will be able to take them with some assault rifles and pistols. A very important freedom indeed.
    - AngryData 4mo ago
      Afganistan caused the US plenty of problems with 70 year old bolt actions and at best 1 gun per 16 people and a tiny fraction of the population fighting. Claiming the US population couldn't successfully work as an insurgency against its military is naive, especially when they have direct access to US logistics and economy.
      - pretzel5297 4mo ago
        Americans are getting executed on the streets, ran by corrupt pedophiles, and their taxes are being funneled to the rich in the open. Where's the insurgency?
Tade0 4mo ago
It's funny how it's never just one thing. In my region of the world a crackdown on street racing started a few years ago. It continued because each night the police stopped someone, there was at least one DUI and suspended license. Unsurprisingly those who disregard traffic rules tend to equally disregard other rules.
- bandrami 4mo ago
  I'm not a big "lock them up" guy but seriously people don't seem to understand how hard it is to actually get the state to put and keep you in jail. You have to do really really bad things multiple times. The US prison population has been falling for over a decade now and part of that is everybody now faces pressure to not use incarceration as a first (or second or fifth) option
  - fjdjshsh 4mo ago
    The USA has the biggest incarceration rate of any developed country. If you say that it's hard to get the state to put you in jail, then the only way I can reconcile that with facts is that people in the USA commit crimes X10 times more than in other developed countries. Do you think that's true?
    - bandrami 4mo ago
      Oh absolutely. The level of antisocial behavior the US tolerates compared to multiple other countries (developed and developing) I've lived in is astounding.
  - Tade0 4mo ago
    My country has a relatively high incarceration rate for a EU member, but that is in huge part due to previous governments seeing jail as a solution to everything. Currently the prevailing notion is that prison is often just LinkedIn for criminals, so attempts at alternatives have been made - ankle monitors and the like. I know a total of two people who were convicted - both for marijuana possession. One got a suspended sentence as the amount was small, the other did time, but looking at the case it was miscarriage of justice - partly because of a testimony of a man who met the accused just once in his life and had legal troubles of his own, from which he wanted to get out this way. None of them really posed a threat to society that would mandate incarceration.

paulpauper 4mo ago

Only commit one crime at a time

vvpan 4mo ago
Serially.
- financetechbro 4mo ago
  Waterfall style
thelastgallon 4mo ago
There should be a law against committing multiple crimes at the same time.

tclancy 4mo ago

I was kind of hoping he sprinted out his back door which happened to be on a state line and then mailed his guns back to his house, just to try to cover everything.

colechristensen 4mo ago

There is a strong bias towards stupid criminals getting caught.

pretzel5297 4mo ago

> Given his former crimes, Sohaib should have had none of this. Nobody should have a personal armory.

wahnfrieden 4mo ago
Why
logicchains 4mo ago
Fortunately enough Americans have enough guns that no matter how much people like you whine about it you'll never be able to take them away.
- Tade0 4mo ago
  Burglars take them away pretty often. Out of reported firearm thefts, most happened to those who had six or more such items.
  - loa_in_ 4mo ago
    This seems like statistical bias in measurement, but it's also likely that enthusiasts would have both more count and more valuable items while also being more likely to show them off.
- pretzel5297 4mo ago
  Yes, because if the American army went rogue I'm sure a bunch of untrained goons cosplaying as John Wick will be able to take them with some assault rifles and pistols. A very important freedom indeed.
  - AngryData 4mo ago
    Afganistan caused the US plenty of problems with 70 year old bolt actions and at best 1 gun per 16 people and a tiny fraction of the population fighting. Claiming the US population couldn't successfully work as an insurgency against its military is naive, especially when they have direct access to US logistics and economy.
    - pretzel5297 4mo ago
      Americans are getting executed on the streets, ran by corrupt pedophiles, and their taxes are being funneled to the rich in the open. Where's the insurgency?

Tade0 4mo ago

It's funny how it's never just one thing. In my region of the world a crackdown on street racing started a few years ago. It continued because each night the police stopped someone, there was at least one DUI and suspended license. Unsurprisingly those who disregard traffic rules tend to equally disregard other rules.

bandrami 4mo ago
I'm not a big "lock them up" guy but seriously people don't seem to understand how hard it is to actually get the state to put and keep you in jail. You have to do really really bad things multiple times. The US prison population has been falling for over a decade now and part of that is everybody now faces pressure to not use incarceration as a first (or second or fifth) option
- fjdjshsh 4mo ago
  The USA has the biggest incarceration rate of any developed country. If you say that it's hard to get the state to put you in jail, then the only way I can reconcile that with facts is that people in the USA commit crimes X10 times more than in other developed countries. Do you think that's true?
  - bandrami 4mo ago
    Oh absolutely. The level of antisocial behavior the US tolerates compared to multiple other countries (developed and developing) I've lived in is astounding.
- Tade0 4mo ago
  My country has a relatively high incarceration rate for a EU member, but that is in huge part due to previous governments seeing jail as a solution to everything. Currently the prevailing notion is that prison is often just LinkedIn for criminals, so attempts at alternatives have been made - ankle monitors and the like. I know a total of two people who were convicted - both for marijuana possession. One got a suspended sentence as the amount was small, the other did time, but looking at the case it was miscarriage of justice - partly because of a testimony of a man who met the accused just once in his life and had legal troubles of his own, from which he wanted to get out this way. None of them really posed a threat to society that would mandate incarceration.