A spray of bullets may have only grazed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, but they killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others.

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    4 months ago

    Yeah; the FBI were doing undercover operations with them for 15 months before arresting them. I don’t know any more details of the case than the wikipedia article highlights, but surely you’d have enough evidence to arrest people trying to build a death ray at some point prior to 15 months. Maybe our gov’t just thought that their innovation was useful and figured they’d wait and see where they went with it.

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      4 months ago

      Why would they pass up free R&D on a potential death ray?

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      4 months ago

      They probably thought a death ray was total bullshit until suddenly it wasn’t