ATF busts New York teen with homemade explosives, silencer and illegal rifle

By Christen Smith

Federal agents in Ithaca, New York arrested a teen after discovering a homemade silencer and explosive device in his apartment near Cornell University earlier this month.
Maximilien R. Reynolds, 19, faces charges in district court for possession of a destructive device and a silencer, as well as aiding and abetting the straw purchase of a rifle, the U.S. Attorneys Office in Syracuse announced March 16.
Reynolds, a former student at the Ivy League university, was attending class at a local community college March 7 when the Ithaca Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation appeared at his doorstep in the Collegetown neighborhood. Reynolds allegedly roused the suspicions of Walmart employees after buying ammunition, camping gear, drill bits, hacksaw blades, knives, miscellaneous tools and a few other items from the store with a gift card earlier that same day.
Agents learned from his girlfriend he’d been expressing manic behavior, nearly two years after local law enforcement detained the teen under the state’s mental hygiene law, according to court documents. An ATF agent later noted the messy state of Reynolds’s apartment, with mathematical equations scribbled on the windows and tactical equipment, knives and chemicals used for making explosive lying in plain sight.
Agents returned to Reynolds’s

Source: Guns.com