Sunday, June 10th, 2007
Issue: 27   Editor: Air


Bullet factory shootings, conspiracy or not? JustDrew
A sunday generally tends to be pretty uneventful around Bootleggers, but this Sunday was nothing like the usual. Around 2:00 PM, BL time of course, 4 Bullet Factory (BF) holders, including a Help Desk Operator were shot. Although the Bullet Factories were being held by three crews, players quickly noticed one crew with common ties, Revelation. Below are the details for the 3 BF’s that were dropped. The Colorado factory has just been passed when the previous holder was shot.

Michigan was a property of Revelation, but was held by Logik and Event Horizon.
New Jersey was a property of Revelation, being held by Jero.
California was a property of Revelation, and was being held by RedMoonV1.
Colorado was a property of The Deadly Alliance, and was held by Mithaeron. He had just passed it before he was killed.

With the killer having been identified as Magics, he made the usual game forum post. In his words, “it was nothing personal, but all these crews own those bf’s for a long long time now.” His motives were very clear, “they feel like gods” he told me and added, “some of them needed a wakeup call.” Magics also informed me that he had been stocking up on bullets the whole reset, wanted some action, and felt that these crews considered themselves to be untouchable. End of the story right? Actually the fun is just beginning with lots of speculation and rumors floating around.

Now I want to discuss the conspiracy theory. With the death of 3 Revelation holders, many viewed them as a target. But who would be after Revelation now and why? Many believed that The Spartan Warriors (also known as TSW) may have been involved. Up until the past week, they have held the Nevada BF for Bigmomma. However during this past week, it was mysteriously dropped on its own. This appears to be a glitch in the game. Carlito, the boss of Revelation purchased the BF for roughly $10,000,000 from the person who picked it up. When TSW came asking for it back, they were told that it was purchased fairly.

Would this be enough of a reason to shoot back? With no factual evidence to back it up, I began to look into the allegations being presented to me. On Wednesday afternoon, I was sent an anonymous message. The player advised me that Magics “was listed as a TSW member for a very long time” and that “it was no coincidence.” I still had no proof though and even asked Youn300, Boss of TSW if there was indeed a connection. I was told that Magics had never been a member of TSW and they had no part in this incident.

At this time I have been offered a few different stories and rumors, but still do not have any real proof to show that this was indeed directed at one crew. Many people commented on the Pennsylvania BF shooting so I would like to clarify as I did not mention it in this article. On Sunday night I was also killed while holding the Penny BF for Rev. My death was a few hours later and had nothing to do with the other killings, my crew or Revelation. It was nothing more then a coincidence.