This "scare story" is disturbing. The picture of guns on a table is not a factual representation of 30 air guns (bb, pellet, paint ball guns). The "authorities" are out to make a mountain out of a mole hill. BBs are sold in plastic containers, so what is the big deal. The story is making plastic containers of BBs into grenades! Purchasing a .22 or a 9mm semi-automatic rifle is not a crime in a "free country". Sounds like another attempt to erode the Constitution, under false pretenses.

Elementary, middle and high schools need to take action and remove the "bully factor". Schools are places to learn, not have bullies running around picking on the perceived weak. Talk about "hate crimes", it is happening every day in our schools.

It will be interesting to see who gets sued, and for how much over these false charges.

Tahoedriver, I am totally NOT defending the actions or alleged future actions of this kid or the parent, however, what 23skdo points out IS far from irrelevant. His point is VERY relevant indeed.

The media and others are purposely leaving out many relevant facts for their own specific cause. The stories are ranging from 80 "guns" to 29 or 30. Regardless of the varied information, one thing that has been consistent is that only only ONE (1) of the many "weapons" was indeed legally, a real firearm. And that firearm, a rifle, was legally purchased and owned. And actually, yes, there is such a thing as a 9mm assault rifle or carbine.

Again, we have here, as 23skdo essentially states, a spin being put on a story to make that story seem a lot worse than it is.

This kid was not going to take over a school and kill multiple people, Columbine style, with one rifle and a buttload of BB/air guns. And if you look at the physical condition of this troubled teen, he probably is/was not very capable of doing much without falling out from a heart attack anyway. If he had help, it could be a different story.

No, I am not trying to take away from the severity of the matter or say that it was not going to happen.

There is no excuse; troubled teen, bullied, picked on for being fat, dressing strangely, looking different, etc. for taking out YOUR problems on innocent people by getting guns and just shooting to kill. NO EXCUSE. PERIOD. Weak parenting, mental issues, whatever. THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

So don't get me wrong. I am not trying to lessen any aspect of the severity of the matter on either side of the story, misquotes and inconsistency, from the possible attack side to the irresponsibility of the parent(s). He and all adults who were in charge of his care, HAVE to be held responsible for what could have been. You can't tell me that his mother, parent(s) whomever, didn't know what was going on in his head. Parents KNOW. They just deny. No parent wants to believe or think that their kid can do any wrong.

This kid has definite problems and in light of all the recent shootings and mass killings, this story is getting a lot of attention, as it should...and a tragedy was very likely prevented. HOWEVER, let's not let the facts of the story become convoluted, covered up and elided in such a way that it becomes way more sensational than it really is, simply for the sake of higher viewer ratings for news outlets, and to further the cause of the anti-gun lobby.

This is just another sign of the times that parents are trying too hard to be "Little Jimmy's" best friend instead of his parent. Oh he was picked on at school, poor thing, so we will just keep him home and oh so very qualified Mommy will "home school" him so he doesn't have to deal with life. While she's at it watching her soaps and judge shows, he can work on his "science experiments" in ballistics and explosives and surf the web for revenge scenarios completely unimpeded. Too bad they don't sell guns on the Home Shopping Network, because Mommy had to put down her remote control and bon bons and go out and buy him the little "trinkets" he nagged her about needing to boost his self-esteem.

I am not knocking bonafide homeschoolers who are qualified and take it as a serious calling and are truly interested in provided a superior education. However our current system of letting every nut job in the world homeschool without having to seriously prove they are up to the task and actually doing the job, is just sending many kids into a life of isolation and inability to cope with real world situations, plus hiding a lot of abuse and bad parenting.

Sounds like this kid needed mental help and that was pretty apparent to a lot of people including the school personnel. But instead of making sure he got help, they gladly washed their hands of him right back to the idiotic parents who likely fueled his mental problems in the first place. We should be only too glad the authorities got to this kid now and not after he hurt someone, or worse, when he was about 25 and decided to take out everyone at some mall because the girl at the Starbucks turned him down for a date. Afterall, how dare she tell him "No" when no one else ever had.

Um, 23skdo your point, while enlightening, is irrelevant. The types of guns found is a moot point. The real story is the fact that guns were in the possession of a teenager and that his MOTHER BOUGHT THEM FOR HIM!!!! So let's please stay on point. This mother needs to be held 100X accountable and punished to the fullest extent of the law. Did anyone learn anything from Columbine, VA Tech or any of ther other numerous school shootings!?!?!??!?!?!

It certainly looks scary doesn't it?

That's what they wanted you to think. The truth is all of those guns are replicas - toys. Made by Airsoft.

They might as well be squirt guns. They shoot plastic pellets. They're not even BB guns. But - they look scary - and that's all the press wants.

As far as two .22 guns? That's normal in much of the country.

A 9mm Assault Rifle? doesn't exist. A 9mm rifle does but it doesn't sound as frightening to citizens as ASSAULT rifle. It's a plinking or varmit rifle which uses pistol ammunition, no more or no less dangerous than the .22's.

A little accuracy might get in the way of a good story, imagine if your Birkenstocks were described as Army boots in a news story.

mscend ...so you wouldn't consider something like an AR-15 an assault rifle ... or a bushmaster the same ???/modification of an AR-15 into a full autro ain't all that hard .. (even so .. thje M-16 and M4 only have three-round bursts even on full auto)l.. but the idea behind the assault rifle moniker is that you throw in a large capacity mag .. hard to do that in a Winchester 94 .. or a Remington 700 .. also .. the semo-auto gets across the ida that youdon't have to fiddle with a bolt .. or lever to prepared the next round .. a well kept weapon .. large mag .. non-arthritic fingers even i could probably bang off five rounds .a second ... anyway .. nice to see that the kid was caught before anyone was hurt .. and mom is also BUSTED .. wonder if this will cause her NRA card anbd membersship to be cancelled ....

When i saw the picture of the guns on the news.....my first thought was that they're just showing the type of guns.....that this could NOT be what was found in the home. Boy was I wrong.

What a STUPID person. You don't buy someone that is that upset, mad, distrubed, or a MINOR for that matter ANY kind of weapon. She was trying to buy her kids love.

What the heck was his mother thinking! You don't give an unsupervised kid arms. Especially anyone with a questionable mental condition.

I'm looking to see where the "... most dangerous firearm in the bunch, the assault rifle" is mentioned in the story. I guess they mean the "9 mm semiautomatic rifle". I wish they would somewhere declare that all single shot semiautomaic weapons (pull the trigger you get a single shot) are known in the media as "assault" weapons (mainly because they look like military arms). To gun owners an assault rifle is a weapon that shoots multiple bullets per trigger pull (selective fire or fully automatic) and has very heavy government restrictions and taxes on ownership and has since 1934.