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We all thought it weird that Family Research Council shooter Floyd Lee Corkins was caught with a bag full of 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches after the August incident, but court documents that came out during his guilty plea to the three charges provide a long-awaited explanation.

According to prosecutors, Corkins not only told FBI investigators that he wanted to “kill as many people as possible,” but that he also planned on rubbing the Chick-fil-A sandwiches in their faces after the fact. Doing so, he claimed, would have sent a message to the Family Research Council and Chick-fil-A, both of which opposed same-sex marriage.

Corkins also told the FBI that he picked the Family Research Council because the Southern Poverty Law Center had declared it a “hate group.” (Corkins also reportedly was found with the address of a second conservative group, the Traditional Values Coalition.) The day after the shooting, FRC President Tony Perkins said that the group’s designation was responsible for the shooting. (Conservative outlets say that Corkins’ arrest was underplayed by the media because he targeted a right-leaning group.)

It was also revealed yesterday that Corkins purchased the gun he used in Chantilly just about a week before the shooting—and was caught on camera by a French news crew reporting on the ease of purchasing guns in the U.S. Additionally, the Washington Times reports that Corkins is the first person charged under a 2002 D.C. terrorism statute.

Corkins pleaded guilty to three charges, and faces up to 70 years in prison.