Lead Diggers

Yet, estranged cousins of Lash claim they are the rightful heirs to his estate and they aimed to take action to send a message to lawmakers. They want the 891 guns and 8 tons of ammunition dumped into the ocean or melted down. [More]

"Estranged cousins"...? The way I've read about this in other accounts, the assumption was they were named as heirs. This reads that they claim to be heirs.

I was wondering why even "progressives" would turn their noses up at $5M unless they were already extremely wealthy enough to be able to afford such political statements. Now it seems this may just be one way to get hooks into an estate that will be liquidated by court order, and they're trying to crowbar their way into the proceedings while making all kinds of "noble-sounding" noises.

Anybody see any accounts that tell us who these people are? Because I'm smelling opportunistic parasites instead of selfless social justice warriors, although both are pretty rank.

[Via several of you]