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   From: oleo@oatmeal.com   
      
   A firearms dealer in Arizona sold weapons to an undercover federal agent he   
   believed would help him carry out his plan for a mass shooting targeting   
   minorities, an attack that he hoped would “incite a race war”, according to   
   a federal grand jury indictment.   
      
   Mark Adams Prieto was indicted Tuesday by the grand jury in Arizona on   
   charges of firearms trafficking, transferring a firearm for use in a hate   
   crime, and possession of an unregistered firearm.   
      
   Court records didn’t list an attorney who could comment on Prieto’s behalf.   
   A lawyer who briefly represented Prieto after he was arrested last month in   
   neighboring New Mexico didn’t respond Wednesday to a request for comment.   
      
   The indictment says the 58-year-old from Prescott, Arizona, recruited the   
   undercover FBI agent and an informant at a gun show where Prieto was a   
   vendor.   
      
   According to the indictment, Prieto told them he’d been thinking about   
   carrying out a mass killing of minority groups for some time in order “to   
   incite a race war” ahead of the presidential election in November. Prieto   
   later identified a rap concert in Atlanta in mid-May for the attack, the   
   indictment alleges.   
      
   The indictment says planning for the shooting began in January and took   
   place over several months at gun shows around Arizona, including in Phoenix   
   and Tucson. At the gun shows, the indictment alleges, Prieto sold two rifles   
   to be used in the shooting to the FBI agent.   
      
   Prieto was arrested in New Mexico on 14 May, around the time of the Atlanta   
   concert, while driving east from Arizona. Authorities said they found seven   
   firearms inside his vehicle.   
      
   Following his arrest, court records show, a US district judge in New Mexico   
   ordered Prieto to remain in federal custody, saying the “seriousness of   
   danger to the community is extreme” if he was to be released.   
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/arizona-man-sold-   
   firearms-undercover-fbi-agent-minorities-mass-shooting   
      
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