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In two of the letters, they threatened to shoot anyone who tried to confiscate his or her guns. "you'll have to kill me and my family before you get my guns." "anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face." "the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i'll exercise that right until the day i die." >> in the text of the letters themselves, in the greeting in the letter, it just says you. so we're assuming that the letters are the same, from the same machine or computer. >> reporter: police say two of the letters contained an orange, pink oily material within wh...

White house spokesman jay carney emphasized in this the past when other letters are sent to the president. >> the mail sent here is screened and tests undertaken at remote sites to mitigate risk to the recipients and general population. >> reporter: the fbi is testing the letters sent to president obama, and meanwhile, the new york cityolice department says initial testing on the bloomberg letters came back positive for ricin. a potentially deadly poison made from castor beans. the third letter sent to washington, d.c., the office of mayors against illegal guns was opened by the director. the ...

Mailed in letters mostly because the poison, homemade from castor beans, and online recipes has been poorly produced. u.s. authorities tell abc news they believe all of this was the work of an amateur because a new test showed the level of toxicity in the ricin was extremely low and probably never presented any health risk to anybody. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> so ricin easy to make but not easy to make effectively. thank goodness. they say a pinpoint of this if it is done right can kill a person within 36 to 48 hours. respiratory and liver starts to shut down. >> right. and you know -...

To use ricin in terror attacks. but for all of that no one in the u.s. has ever died or been seriously harmed from ricin mailed in letters mostly because the poison, homemade from castor beans, and online recipes has been poorly produced. u.s. authorities tell abc news they believe all of this was the work of an amateur because a new test showed the level of toxicity in the ricin was extremely low and probably never presented any health risk to anybody. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> so ricin easy to make but not easy to make effectively. thank goodness. they say a pinpoint of this if it i...

Be trying to identify by age but maybe a region where that person may have grown up, and obtained their language skills. >> as for their intended targets, mark glaze opened his letter right here next to his office in washington on sunday. now, a police report says he opened it, saw the threatening message, then dropped the letter onto a bench and called police. dplaz didn't want to go on camera with us, but so far he does not feel the effects of ricin poisoning. an expert is with me now. amy, if he handled this stuff, only externally, is he in danger? >> well, the problem he would have is if h...