A&M Gunman Had Stockpile Of Firearms, Was A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

The now-deceased gunman who killed two and injured three in a shootout with police near Texas A&M University on Monday possessed a stockpile of firearms and, according to his mother, was having mental difficulties.

Reached for a phone interview by the Huffington Post, mother of gunman Thomas A. Caffall said, The minute I saw the TV I knew it was him. Ive been that worried about him. Caffalls stepfather agreed in an interview with a local Texas station, where he called the man a ticking time bomb.

If Caffalls Facebook page offers any evidence of the mans thinking, it is in the photographs of an array of firearms. The gunman posted several pictures of guns in the weeks prior to the shooting. One set of images features a Czech VZ-58, a gun that resembles an AK-47. One shows a Russian... [via Wonk Room]