Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for assistance Monday as an FBI special weapons and tactics team executed a search warrant in Lacey, near the state capitol of Olympia, “as a result of a violent robbery and theft of military weaponry/armor.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday night that the search warrant related to an Army CID and FBI investigation into an assault Sunday at Joint Base Lewis-McCord, just north of Olympia.

Sanders’ statement said two people were arrested and booked into Thurston County Jail for investigation of firearms-related offenses.

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        i realize this is /s, but i kinda wish people would not continue to conflate autism with nazism, even as a joke.

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          I assumed that was the only kind being made. You mean there’s someone out there sewing dead plants to make fascists feel more authentic?

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            What he means is “a collector would’ve likely bought someone’s grandpa’s old war trophy”.

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              As someone who collects random milsurp shit and literally has a pile of modern military jackets (German, Czech, USAF) next to him I can confirm that collectors generally either get them from stores, auctions, and sales. Also no a collector would have a couple random flags mixed in, like an old Soviet flag or a partisan or resistance flag.

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            Unfortunately, almost certainly yes. And not for movies or museums either.