• pageflight@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    “And he paid for, at least in part, a drone and explosives to be used as a weapon of mass destruction to commit an attack,” investigators said in the federal affidavit.

    What’s “mass” about one drone? Is this just language to bring different legalities to bear?

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      6 days ago

      I don’t know about Wisconsin specifically, but some jurisdictions legally classify explosives as WMDs, alongside all the nukes and chemical weapons and stuff that people think of ordinarily.