Two Iowa men are facing firearm charges after authorities found weapons and ammunition in their vehicle following social media threats made to attendees of the Pokémon World Championships held in Boston, police said Sunday.

On Friday, detectives executed a warrant on the vehicle and found one 12-gauge Remington shotgun, one DPMS Model AR-15 rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition and a hunting knife.

Police arrested the individuals at a Saugus, Massachusetts, hotel early Saturday. They were expected to be arraigned Monday.

The threats on social media were flagged by private sector public safety personnel at the convention center.

"The BPD detectives did a great job in the stop and prevention of a potential tragedy," said Superintendent Paul Fitzgerald, Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis commander.

"This incident is a good example of private security reaching out to their local Boston police district and relaying information to detectives ... to identify the very real threat," Fitzgerald said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/23/us/pokemon-championships-threats/

Seems like Pokemon is a game of passion. And an excuse to kill people for some...

Thank goodness that they were caught before anything terrible happened.

Yeah I was thinking about making a thread about this when it happened, but I got lazy v.v thankfully no one got shot

Looks like Team Rocket is blasting off again!

In a more serious note, I'm glad those guys got caught. Not only are there a lot of young fans but this is also an international event. 

Wtf... these things need to stop. It's clearly a cultural problem...

Holy shit, but why??

So there was a chance that someone could have been shot because you didn't make the thread?

Wow this is incredibly disturbing to hear since I participated in the World Championships in the summer several years back. Glad nothing bad happened since the events are truly fun and competitive.

Oh god I didn't realize it could be read that way XD That made my day. But yes.

Little info provided without motive. It says that it was an exclusive event, like they gave exclusive passes, maybe there they were some disgruntled guys.

They say the threats happened online, maybe they had some argument with some of the attendees.

ISIS is destroying everything that "distracts" from their religion, maybe ISIS considers Pokemon some other kind of worship.

Maybe they were looking for you?