Gun owners have to be extra careful these days to avoid not only incurring the wrath of overzealous law enforcement but playing into the hands of the anti-gun crowd as well.
Case in point is Guo Shou, a Queens man who was taken into police custody after authorities exercised a warrant to search his apartment and found a massive arsenal in it. What they found was enough weapons and ammo to “take on a small army”, per Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Among his inventory were 14 legally-obtained handguns, 2 licensed and loaded shotguns, 1 licensed rifle and around 45,000 rounds of ammo for any number of weapons. He was also found to be in possession of parts that could be assembled into an AR-10 or AR-15 assault rifle as well as several pieces of Kevlar body armor.
While all of Shou’s equipment was legally acquired, police claimed that he failed to store it properly, thus necessitating his arrest.
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Cecil Rogers I’m not convinced Scalia was assassinated, but there are some suspicious signs. There’s a lot more evidence about JFK, RFK, Paul Wellstone, JFK Jr., etc. So just substitute those examples if you’re more comfortable with them.
You don’t have to be a citizen to be protected by the U.S. Constitution. Nor do you have to be a NON-citizen for statist thugs to violate your rights.
The very same people who make the argument you just made, will also say there’s no way we can defend ourselves against the US government because they have us outgunned.
The Second Amendment says nothing about protecting our families? Whom do you think the government would go after if they couldn’t catch the “man of the house”? Whom did they shoot at Ruby Ridge? Whom did they kill at Waco?
“Too many mass murders, too many gangs and murders”. And violating this man’s rights would have stopped any of that, how? He had no history of violence and he was admittedly licensed to have all the guns he had — or perhaps all but one of them (the news coverage was inconsistent on that point). At what point did the city become liable for any damages he might commit by granting him yet another license after they had already granted X number of them? What’s the point of licensing if the city is going to rubberstamp the applications and then pounce on you for complying?
Reese Erch-Guy Whatever, no one needs that amt of ammunition, no one.
The law you cited seems to have to do with employers, not individuals or residences. Look at the folder path. And he had 225 pounds, not 20 pounds.
For the love of…. how many times do we have to tell you, powder and bullets don’t explode in fires!
And firefighters know there could be something dangerous anytime they go into a fire. It goes with the job.
Getting a license there requires you to grant permission for random inspections. One of the original articles reported that the inspector saw the guns and then called in to get a warrant to search the whole apartment, allegedly because he didn’t like the way the guns and powder were stored. The press release at http://nypdnews.com/2016/02/queens-man-charged-with-reckless-endangerment-by-stockpiling-weapons-arsenal-in-rego-park-apartment/ refers only to “Two hundred twenty-five (225) pounds of smokeless gun powder stored in various containers and open to view” with regard to the powder. If you can see the metal container properly labeled, how is that a threat? That’s what the law actually requires according to the other post; you can’t relabel it and hide what’s in the container. But it doesn’t mean the top of the container is open for you to throw your cigarette into it.
If the cops and DA had truly damning specifics, they would’ve disclosed them instead of just using handwaving scare tactics. F ’em all.
I simply report what he was charged under.
How lucky blacks in New York City are, that the cops never beat them up or shoot them for no good reason. It’s just freakin’ MAGICAL how there is no racism up there.