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Officials responding to a house fire found 50 pounds of explosives, enough to have 'leveled the entire block of homes.'

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pennsylvania law defines a weapon of mass destruction in the following way:

“Weapon of mass destruction.” A biological agent, bomb, chemical agent or nuclear agent.

https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-18-pacsa-crimes-and-offenses/pa-csa-sect-18-2716/

It's a bit of a "one of these things is not like the others" situation, but a bomb counts as a WMD in PA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the most recent would be trump assassin had a prior wmd charge for machine gun possession.