http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/hi ... /10648837/
The FBI says Winters is a "prepper" and a survivalist. They say he preaches that the end is near. Rene Leach knows Winters and says, "This is Obama. Everybody worries about their rights being taken away. But that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. If it was, and someone was to attack his house and his family, he would be prepared."
There's nothing illegal about stockpiling food or weapons as long as it's done legally but, acting on a tip, the FBI has been investigating Winters for months. Agents spent Monday going through his Valrico home on Williams Boulevard, where they suspect he's been assembling small explosives, which is illegal.
Apparently they didn't find any explosives, but they did:
Casey Kendell is one of Winters tenants, who says FBI agents stopped her and her boyfriend, Jason Swain, at gunpoint with her three small kids terrified in the back seat as they were heading out of town for a birthday party. Kendell says, "Why is my car getting smashed? They pulled me over and slammed my car with no sirens on, broke the windows out of my car. [They] threw flash bombs in the windows with my kids sitting right there, put guns to my temple and my chest and my neck."
Though I admit....the flash bomb claim sounds dubious.......
"Journalism, n. A job for people who flunked out of STEM courses, enjoy making up stories, and have no detectable integrity or morals."
From the WeaponsMan blog, weaponsman.com
