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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But it’s probably not a good idea to store 225 lbs of flammable, explosive material in a one bedroom apartment.
I mean setting aside whether it’s legal (It’s not. The limit is 50 lbs in a residence, although even THAT is a bit much for a tiny apartment..), surely you can see how common sense would dictate that you store dangerous materials properly, right?
This article fails to mention the gunpowder AND fails to mention the ammo press that was also found.
So, you were fired out of a cannon when this publication fooled you into believing this was a gun control issue. Are you so eager to defend black market ammunition and storing insane amounts of gunpowder around families and communities?
His primary charge is first degree reckless endangerment for storing 225 lbs of gunpowder in a tiny apartment. This article conveniently leaves that out.
Right? It’s such a tragedy that his neighbors no longer live next to 225 lbs of gunpowder! That’s not dangerous at all! If anything, he had the right to endanger their lives by stashing that hoard in his one bedroom apartment!
Oh wait, you didn’t know about his massive gunpowder hoard because this publication doesn’t mention it. I guess if you want to view it as, “DEY ARRESTED HIM 4 DA GUNZ” it’s kind of inconvenient that he was also amassing explosive, flammable material in a residence.
The right to store 225 lbs of gunpowder in a one bedroom apartment is CENTRAL to the 2nd Amendment, right?
Do 2 seconds of research rather than blindly believe whatever publication supports your narrative. This guy had a stockpile of highly flammable material far above federal limits for storage in a residence (A generous 50 lbs.)
He had how much black powder stored in his apt in an apt building ? I am all for the 2A but I think this guy went beyond the pale with how much powder he had and that it was in a residential Bldg.
225 lbs of gunpowder is NOT legal to store in a one bedroom apartment! And common sense will tell you it’s stupid and dangerous beyond being illegal. Hell, the legal limit of 50lbs of gun powder stored in a residence is generous.
Don’t believe this rag of a publication trying to turn it into a gun control issue. This man was a danger to his neighborhood and it’s a good thing they caught him before his insane stash went up.
When you say blackmarke ammo, I then take it that you yourself, have little to no reserves, and would depend on the black market for ammo, if indeed you were not liberal minded enough to be talked into not having a weapon. As far as buying black market ammo, there are hundreds of thousands if not in the millions of rounds that are below average price that are being sold even as we speak. The two most common rounds, .22LR, and the 410 shotgun are in demand, and sometimes can be said to be low stock. and to say that I was shot out of a cannon,.. not sure what you mean about that. Its un heard of to limit ammo, but if properly stored, properly maintained, and in order, a thousand rounds just whets my appetite. One pound containers of smokeless powder, properly stored till needed has always been limited to fifteen to twenty pounds. No big deal there. Twenty pounds of powder will reload a lot of rifle and pistol rounds. Surely you can see that an apartment is NO POWDER MAGAZINE, NOR STORAGE UNIT for ammuniton. but still if indeed they handle it right, no reason for you getting your panties in a wad Alice. Stay on your prozac, and the world will always be nicer than you once thought.
That was his right ! They have no right to come in without a warrant and search his house. I’d do it if I could get the powder. Just to show that I could. You could like it or lump it.
It’s a good thing he only got arrested for one unlicensed gun and the INSANE gunpowder stash this disgusting publication leaves out.
Now why is that? It’s almost like the, “It’s a gun control issue! They said he had too many guns!” narrative crumbles when you consider the fact that he had 225 lbs of gunpowder in a one bedroom apartment. Because regardless about how you feel about federal regulations, that’s stupid and dangerous.
The regulations, by the way, are generous and allow for you to store up to 50 lbs of gunpowder in a residence.
But I guess since he had a lot of guns he’s automatically an angel and the evil government was cracking down on his right to endanger his whole building…
The convenient part is, he also had 225 lbs of gunpowder and an ammo press!
How dare they crack down on this black market business mans entrepreneurial aspirations! It was his right to endanger his whole damn building by keeping 225 lbs of gunpowder in a one bedroom apartment!!!