 In New Mexico , they obtained false identification , and purchased several pistols . Their intention was to purchase guns which were difficult to trace . Caldwell said it was easy to obtain guns in New Mexico : " we found it was pretty easy to buy guns . All you had to do was show some identification and it was easy to get . " Caldwell said she and <unk> went to a university library to find the identity " of someone dying very young " , next went " to public records and asked for a copy of a birth certificate " and described how " we got a rent <unk> book and just made up a rent <unk> " . " And then we were able to go to several different gun shops in <unk> with those two bits of identification and buy five different guns and bullets , " said Caldwell . They were able to obtain one <unk> <unk> @-@ caliber revolver , and four <unk> <unk> @-@ caliber Security @-@ Six Magnum <unk> . The conspirators smuggled the guns into Oregon by packing them in luggage and putting the luggage on a <unk> Lines bus . Caldwell said that she and <unk> traveled by bus back to the <unk> commune so as to avoid airport metal detectors . 
