a.c. thompson we begin with you -- the bowling green massacre you are writing about.ompson: richard smith -- richard schmidt had spent years in the army. he got into a street altercation and killed three people, a man named anthony torres. 13 years in prison. when he got out of prison, he was banned from owning firearms. despite that, he amassed a rifles,arsenal, assault shotguns, pistols, 40,000 rounds of ammunition, body armor. the federal government found out about his arsenal, basically by accident. they were investigating a counterfeit sports good ring. he had a business selling schmaltz -- sports memorabilia, and they traced packages of counterfeit nfl jerseys to his businesses in bowling green, and when they got there they found something much more worrisome than counterfeit goods. they found a huge arsenal or and by a felon who was not allowed to have guns, the more worrisome than that, what they found was a membership card for the national alliance, a white supremacist group linked to more than 200 murders, and an indication that he was associate with a neo-n