Fast-food worker with ‘fantasy to commit a Columbine-style mass shooting’ sent to prison for threats to attack, bomb schools

Background: Homemade pipe bombs seized from Logan Sea Pallister. Courtesy U.S. Justice Department. Inset: Logan Sea Pallister booking photo Helena Police Department.

Background: Homemade pipe bombs seized from Logan Sea Pallister (via U.S. Justice Department). Inset: Logan Sea Pallister booking photo (via Helena Police Department).

Logan Sea Pallister, a man who amassed an arsenal of weapons and fawned over the Columbine High School shooting before vowing to shoot up and bomb schools in Montana, was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison this week.

Prosecutors originally sought 10 years.

According to a sentencing memorandum from federal prosecutors, when Helena Police arrested Pallister in the early hours of May 31, 2022 — it was close to 4 a.m. — he was exiting his home wearing a black trench coat and carrying a bag. He also had eight loaded firearms concealed on his body including AR-style rifles equipped with high capacity magazines.

In his car, police found nine more guns, body armor and trigger modifications for his firearms that would make them shoot faster. There were four homemade pipe bombs and a jerry-rigged silencing device he made from an oil can as well. Inside his home after his arrest, police found yet more equipment to modify firearms and more supplies to make explosives.

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