Former Virginia National Guardsman arrested for ISIS support
Chief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post which tells the tale of Mohamad Bailor Jalloh, a former Virginia National Guardsman who was influenced by the teachings of Anwar al-Awlaki and the example of the Fort Hood murderer, Nidal Hasan;
While under FBI surveillance on July 1, Jalloh visited Blue Ridge Arsenal, a gun store and indoor target range in Chantilly, Va. He attempted to purchase a Bushmaster AR-15 but did not have the required three forms of identification, court papers said. He told staffers he would return the next day.
He was being watched by the FBI who told the gun dealer to sell him a disabled rifle;
The store’s owner said Jalloh returned that evening and bought a different assault rifle for about $1,200. He test-fired the weapon at the range, after which an employee took the gun in the back and disabled it before returning it to Jalloh.
Jalloh also paid $500 to an FBI informant who Jalloh thought was working for ISIS for “material support” of the terrorist organization. From WTVR;
Jalloh began his service with the Virginia National Guard in April 30, 2009. He held the rank of specialist in the 276th Engineer Battalion, 91st Troop Command as a combat engineer. He separated from the National Guard in April 2015 with an honorable discharge.
The Post says that according to National Guard sources, he didn’t deploy with the unit.
The Charlotte Observer reports that he made several unsuccessful attempts to buy guns in North Carolina before he went to try in Virginia. So, it looks like existing gun laws impeded another one.
Category: Terror War
But, but, we have to have more laws. Who cares if this schmoo was deterred, that’s not the point, we need more laws./s
Schmoo ……..are they back??Hoorayyyyyyyy. Google Lil Abner and The Schmoo.
I hope there was some sort of safety in place when he was test firing the weapon at the range-as in a trained FBI sniper with his sites trained on him in case he suddenly decided to start killing kafirs right then and there.
I hope that the gun shop owner got that BAT-FEces order in writing, signed and notarized.
SPEC4 Mohamad Bailor Jalloh. Yeah, I know. The US military has some number of Muslims in it. The least they could do is change their freakin’ names.
Well, if I were Mohamad Bailor Jalloh I would sue the shit out of the gun shop owner and the FBI for conspiring to sell me a product that was not fit for its intended use.
It’s okay, he was only go to wage jihad one weekend a month and two weeks during the summer.
Winner!
Ha-an M-day jihadi!
Ha!
You’ve made me very happy
Wish I could scare up $1200 for a new AR-15. Oh, wait. Can’t buy one in the PRofMD anyway.
Guess I’ll have to save up and settle for an AR-10 instead, as that platform isn’t on the banned list.
I shit you not. And yes they are that stupid.
Well you have to give the idiot lawmakers a little credit at least. After all, 10 is a smaller number than 15. Those 15’s are huge so uh, yep, they should be banned but 10’s? Yep 10’s are allowed.
Hell, I’m surprised they just didn’t go full stupid and ban the AR-7, too. After all, it has AR in it, fires semi auto from a magazine and is a scary black color :).
Was he Lutheran?
Mohamad Bailor Jalloh,that sounds like an Amish name to me!! /sarc
Yep,sounds Dutchie to me
What exactly would the gunsmith have done to disable the weapon without this guy noticing? As a weekend warrior, shouldn’t this guy have been able to quickly surmise that he was being fooled? How about a functions check? What gives?
Really?
Yes. I own guns, I know how to shoot and handle them, and I know a decent amount about how they function, but I’m no gunsmith.
So either there is something capable of disabling a firearm that is beyond my level of knowledge that I would genuinely like to hear about or this hajji didn’t know shit about firearms, which I suppose is feasible.
They could have removed the firing pin and replaced it with an altered one incapable of striking a primer.
Hell, he could have filed 1/16″ off the firing pin and this yahoo would never have known the difference until he tried to fire it, and probably not even then. Function check from a non deployed NG engineer – not likely.
OK, thanks Rgr and PFM! I thought about the idea of removing the firing pin entirely (too noticeable?) but I didn’t consider the idea of just barely damaging it.
Leaving the pin out is not a decent option, for mechanical reasons.
If you had time to prepare a spare pin ahead of time, it is a fairly quick swap-out. Most folks would never spot the defect without disassembly. Absent that prep time, a decent small bolt cutter would probably make short work of the business end of the pin.
“I have to take it in the back and make sure the paperwork is straight, and put it back in the box. I’ll just be a minute or two. You wouldn’t want to get arrested because I screwed up he paperwork, would you? Jerry over there can show you that new AK/AR hybrid while you wait. Just got them in.”
Hmm. Maybe “pin out” would work well enough. As long as the cam pin was held in place by the guts of the action, it might seem “operable”. Seems too easy to spot the problem. Kinda hard to miss the missing shiny thing that should be visible in the bolt carrier, as soon as you pull the rear takedown pin.
I am assuming that the intent is a -quiet- malfunction, not a -spectacular- one. Driving a slug about 2″ into the rifling would also make it “non-functional” from the shooter’s point of view. Pre-deploying such a “stoppage” would probably be actionable….
The article states that he fired it at the range, so he took that as evidence that the rifle worked fine. The armorer just needed to either file the firing pin down slightly, or just remove it completely. Doofus would never know.
True. Thanks, Rerun.
I would imagine the FBI and ATF have a supply of M-16 firing pins that are specially modified just for this purpose. I know I would not want to be the agent responsible for letting him get a shootable firearm.
But are they really sure he “intended” to do something bad? Maybe he was just being “careless” about how he read the Quran and that’s why he thought he had to do something.
Typical FBI using the easy pickings to get props in the news. Attach “assault rifle” and now you got a story! Pathetic liberal media.
Now if the FBI had caught the san bernardino and Orlando muslim terrorist that would be impressive. But they couldn’t do that since they aren’t allowed to look at their facebook post since they were muslims. That would be “profiling”.
That would have been nice, but I’m sure that the Federal Bureau of Indifference Agents were more concerned about not being accused of profiling.
I am not seeing criminal intent.
Therefore the prosecutor should drop the case.
Indeed it appears that our muslim friend here was nothing more than careless in his handling of his cash and inadvertently giving it to the FBI..he didn’t realize that his firearm purchase was not secure and he only did what previous potential terrorists have done…