VA Tech style massacre averted

[Taz_bb2]

Cops: Man threatens Va. Tech-like attack

MIAMI - A 20-year-old with a weapons cache that included four AK-47s was arrested after threatening over the Internet to undertake a Virginia Tech-style massacre, authorities said Thursday.

Oregon authorities learned of a March 25 Internet message allegedly posted by Calin Chi Wong in which he threatened to re-enact the Virginia Tech killings. Two days later, Homestead Police searched the home Wong shares with his parents and found the weapons in stacked on shelves in plain view, Detective Antonio Aquino said.

Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to take down aircraft or military machinery," Aquino said. He had hidden two AK-47s in his parents' closet, and his parents said the guns did not belong to them, Aquino said. :eek:

Wong was charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily injury via the computer and bonded out for $7,500. Additional charges are pending, he said.

It was not known whether he had a lawyer. A message left by The Associated Press at a phone number listed for Wong was not immediately returned Thursday evening. The phone at his employer, China King, rang unanswered.

Homestead Police first noticed Wong when he went to the department in February to complain he had been robbed of $800 over the Internet after he ordered a gun online using his father's PayPal account.

He told authorities he had called the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and other agencies about the issue. Aquino said Wong finally reached a boiling point when he posted the message saying he would re-enact the Virginia Tech massacre, in which student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people last year before turning the gun on himself.

"After speaking to him and seeing his frustration, I believe that he had the potential to carry out some kind of threat," Aquino said.

Wong felt isolated and cut off, authorities noted, saying he had been buying and selling guns for about two years and word was now getting around about Wong's age. Dealers stopped selling to him, and he was being banned from certain gun-sale Web sites.

"I'm soon to the point to re-enact the whole event," Wong wrote under the name "thehumanabc," referring to the shootings last April at Virginia Tech. "This may not seem like a threat to you, but I'm sure others don't want to see it occur again. It should be a wake up call for All haters out there," according to an arrest report.

Aquino said Wong told police that making the threat made him feel good because after "he had thousands of people on the Internet paying attention to him."

But Wong also said he was just upset and frustrated and never actually planned a killing spree, Aquino said.

But authorities also found a school book bag lined with bulletproof vests inside Wong's home, as well as two handguns.

Wong is not in college, Aquino said. He graduated from an Oregon high school and attended a college for a year before moving in with his parents in Florida, authorities said.

Wong said the weapons were an investment.

"He says it's a lucrative business," Aquino said. "He said if Hillary Clinton wins she'll put a ban on assault rifles, and these assault rifles will be worth more in value."

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^^^^That's the smartest thing the kid ever said.:rolleyes:

[mobrien316]

If Florida colleges were all "gun-free zones" this wouldn't be an issue.

After all, you can't have a massacre on campus if no one is allowed to carry on campus... Right? Hello? Am I right?

[mxwelch]

Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to take down aircraft or military machinery

More media dribble. Getting shot by an armor piercing round is preferable to getting hit but a FMJ because it's less likely to fragment or deflect. Desks, lockers, and most doors wouldn't stop a FMJ AK round so it's all moot.

WTH is a 100 rounds in a feeding clip? Sounds like a Beta Mag.

WTH is the "meant to take down aircraft or military equipment" statement? Did the guy have 50 BMG rounds or larger? 7.62x39 is NOT an anti aircraft round. Neither is a .30-06. Even a 50 cal is a weak round in that role. More of the media trying to get the lemmings running to the cliff.

[Johninaustin]

Wonder what his name over on Ar-15.com was?;)

[BP348]

I don't know if anyone else heard this story (hate to hijack a thread) but did anyone hear about a girl from Texas being arrested in New jersey for making threats?

It was on the news here for a while. Seems that some girl e-mails sometype of threat to another girl and then got a friend to post some kind of note.

NJ issued a warrant for her and the local PD went and picked her up at her high school.

[Norm357]

100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to take down aircraft or military machinery,"

*cough*

Bull****


*cough*

[Hockey9019]

Wonder what his name over on Ar-15.com was?;)

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=694645


and the convo

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.htm...f=109&t=528614

[Norm357]

He was ARMEDBEAR over at Glock Talk. Eric banned him last Oct.

[Hockey9019]

Yeah I've been reading some of his stuff and this kid is MESSED UP to say in the LEAST

[CTUCop]

Wong had 13 firearms in all, more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition, some that could pierce armor, and 100 rounds in a feeding clip with bullets "meant to take down aircraft or military machinery,"

*cough*

Bull****


*cough*

Maybe he had one of the infamous 50cal rifles. We all have one of those. Mine will shoot through a M1 tank and take down a B1 bomber.
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But only if the powder stays dry and I don't lose the percussion caps. :D



Heck, I even have the lesser known 50cal pistol which should be good against Bradley Fighting Vehicles.



:D :p :rolleyes: