A bizarre gun trafficking case involving three U.S. Marines and a male porn actor—all with alleged white supremacist ties—now includes a New Jersey National Guardsman who hoped to become a state trooper one day. Joseph Maurino, a 21-year-old infantryman known on the now-defunct neo-Nazi message board Iron March as “Bishop,” was indicted this week by a North Carolina grand jury for allegedly supplying untraceable “ghost guns” and silencers to other members of the conspiracy “with the intention they be used unlawfully in furtherance of a civil disorder,” the 15-page indictment states. In a May 2020 text message FBI agents recovered from Maurino’s phone, he allegedly told an associate known as “Gentile” that he could provide an “untraceable Glock” for $600. Maurino is also accused of attending a desert training camp in Idaho last year with alleged co-conspirators Liam Montgomery Collins, aka “Disciple;” Paul James Kryscuk, aka “Deacon;” Jordan Duncan, aka “Soldier;” and Justin Wade Hermanson, aka “Sandman.” Videos showed the men in Atomwaffen masks and firing assault rifles, according to court filings.
via daily beast: NJ National Guardsman Charged in Neo-Nazi ‘Ghost Gun’ Conspiracy