C’mon, Ma, Give Me Back My AK-47!

Jacob Ward
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It’s not easy being a Christian militiaman.

One of the nine alleged Hutaree militia members charged in Michigan for plotting to kill police there reportedly became irate at police in Ohio last year when they refused to press charges against his mother, who had confiscated his AK-47 and pistol — which he said he desperately needed to protect himself from an Ohio crime family whose bad side he was on because he had tried to marry a Macedonian woman who was supposedly held captive on an island in Lake Erie by another crime family.

Got all that?

His mom, god bless her, took his guns away because she thought he was mentally unstable.

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