The FBI arrested a Virginia man on gun charges after finding the largest cache of 'finished explosives' - including pipe bombs - in his home.
The record stockpile described in court documents includes 150 explosives discovered in suspect Brad Spafford's 20-acre farm, where he lives with two young children.
'Unsecured' pipe bombs were found in a backpack and a bedroom and devices marked as 'lethal' were found in a barn on the property.
The explosives were found during a search of Spafford's property in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, located near Norfolk about three hours from Washington, D.C.
A neighbor who alerted authorities said Spafford would use photographs of President Joe Biden for target practice at a shooting range, and that he blew off three fingers on his right hand while working with a homemade explosive.
The suspect said 'political assassinations should be brought back.'
Following the first attempt on Donald Trump's life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, he told the neighbor he 'hoped the shooter doesn’t miss Kamala,' according to a report on the documents and a report in the Springfield Times.
The neighbor also said Spafford spouted a bizarre conspiracy theory that 'missing children in the news had been taken by the federal government to be trained as school shooters.'
Spafford was arrested on charges related to the improper registration of a weapon. Authorities often bring a lesser charge to detain a suspect and then build a case later.
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