The Rogue Archivist

Archiving the things of the present, past, and future: firearms, nature, art, politics.

[thememedaddy]

[beardedmrbean]

[bighermie]

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

Remember that the feds pressured him into making that illegal modification.

I'd someone is pressuring you to commit a crime, there's a good chance they're a fedboi looking to manufacture a criminal so they can make an arrest.

[riflebrass]

The feds baited him into sawing down a couple shotguns illegally. Rather than arresting him for it they tried to blackmail him into being an informant. The only reason they went ahead and arrested him was he not only refused to be a snitch but he got the word out that they were blackmailing people to be snitches. After his arrest he was released as he wasn't a flight risk. The court date got pushed back a day. His lawyer fucked up and told him it had gotten pushed back a whole month. The judge had the power to grand him leniency under the circumstances but instead went ahead and declared him a fugitive thus getting the US marshals involved. The marshals spent over a year spying on him. They trespassed onto his property for some more spying and got the dog's attention so they shot the dog without identifying themselves.

Randy's son Sammy sees some stranger in camo shoot his dog so he shoots at the stranger. The strangers shoot back killing Sammy as he ran away.

A family friend named Kevin Harris who was with Sammy shot and killed the unidentified stranger. He ended up getting shot in return. As they ran away Randy's wife held the door open and she got shot in the head.

After over a week someone finally realized they had no real line of communication with Weaver and no real way to try and talk him down. Someone finally just walks up, knocks on the door, and has a conversation.

Harris was dying so they made arrangements for him to go to the hospital. He was charged with killing a federal agent. Finally Randy surrendered and was taken into custody. At one point the feds were so desperate for a conviction they tried to slap his daughters with criminal charges but that got thrown out.

Harris was acquitted for killing a federal agent because they hadn't identified themselves and it turns out "strangers shooting at you" is a pretty darn good reason to shoot back in self defense.

Randy on the other hand was acquitted of the original sawed off shotgun charges because the court determined that was entrapment. Ironically the only charge they got to stick was that bullshit failure to appear. They really killed two people and ruined his life over that because they wouldn't cut a guy some slack for not getting the right court date from his lawyer.

[pillarofawesome]

And the reason they wanted him to be an informant was so that they could use an expendable civilian to spy on a group of white supremacists in the area.

Said white supremacists then turned out to be, wait for it...

A fed honeypot from a different federal agency.

[sbrown82]

[sbrown82]

This!

[recoiloperated]

Everyone complains about Zendaya and raves about tailor swift, I have no clue who these people are.

[recoiloperated]

Like- really fast adjustments? Or the drug? Like-smuggling?

[wrenchinator-central]

Both. How do you think she does it so fast?

As for Zendaya, that’s actually not a person, it’s a one a day allergy pill and multivitamin combo.

[recoiloperated]

That explains why people are upset about it, you shouldn’t take allergy meds super often.

[beardedmrbean]

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

Holy shit this is GORGEOUS OP

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

welcome... to Nothing Park

[meow-moment]

"You have a T-Rex?"

"No."

[theunfairfolk]

[were--ralph]

Its so well made its perfect

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

I think I am gonna try and figure out a goodvway to make a hat out of license plates

[the-rogue-archivist]

Layered Samurai helmet style

[theehorsepusssy]

[dashaibo]

My litmus test for people in 2025 is "do you understand that authoritarianism is bad and that authoritarian rulers lie?"

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

What? They lie?!?

[yokelfelonking]

We should do something about it. Maybe if we put Our Guy in charge and gave him supreme authority over everything he'll stop authoritarian leaders from lying! He said he would!

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

Oh yeah we can totally trust our guy

[thememedaddy]

[teaboot]

My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities

[gsirvitor]

[recoiloperated]

[pesoglav]

[dankxsinatra]

[memewhore]

[thatdisasterauthor]

This one really does just gain momentum with every new word, huh?

[vampireknitting]

It’s so creepy how people take a completely platonic relationship between two heterosexual male characters WITH WIVES and obsess over how “gay” they are. All it shows is you weirdos have no idea what a best friend is or what genuine friendship is or what healthy platonic relationships are period.

[internetcatholicism]

"Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend." -C.S. Lewis

[lightthewaybackhome]

This is something I loathe about our current culture. Every friendship is automatically sexualized. You aren't able to have deep, loving, meaningful friendships with anyone of your own sex anymore, it is all just about having sex. It's such a sad and shallow view of life. It's terribly lonely. It's unloving.

[the-lost-alchemist]