Orange County Judge Jeffrey Ferguson has been charged with the murder of his wife. He posted $1 million in bail.

A California Superior Court judge arrested last week has now been charged with killing his wife in front of their adult son at their home. Court filings reveal the judge had over 47 weapons and 26,000 rounds of ammunition in his home.

  • oatscoop
    103·
    1 year ago

    26,000 is a lot, but with no other context it’s not an indicator of “crazy”.

    As others have said: ammo is cheaper in bulk. It doesn’t “go bad” if stored properly, and you need different rounds for different guns. And for a while it was hard to find – you stocked up when you found it because you didn’t know when it was going to be available again. I have:

    • 1000 shells of 12 ga – that’s two cases, I have to drive a ways to buy them, and I shoot trap every other week.
    • 20ish shells, 12 ga slugs – left over from hunting
    • 1050 rounds of 9mm, because I bought 3 cheap boxes of Blazer Brass on sale and that’s what I shoot at the range.
    • 800ish of 7.62x54r – 2 spam cans, for the same reason. -
    • 1500ish rounds of .22lr – 3 boxes of 500 rounds… same reason. It’s a plinking/small game round.

    I’m not a nut, but if the cops raided my house the headline would be “found with over 4000 rounds of ammunition!!!”