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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Really? Was your guy also storing 225 lbs of gunpowder in his residence?
Was your guys residence a one bedroom apartment?
They arrested him for one unlicensed gun and 225 lbs of gunpowder. Quit believing everything you read. You clearly disdain that mentality considering your last comment, but you’ve fallen victim to it by believing this trash publication.
How do I know it’s trash? They utterly fail to mention the 225 lbs of gunpowder the guy was keeping in his one bedroom apartment. Federal law allows for a generous 50 lbs of gunpowder to be stored in a residence. 225 in a one bedroom is dangerous as hell. Also: did you know he had an ammo press? Another convenient detail left out by this rag! It’s almost like they were going out of their way to leave out every detail that points to this guy being a criminal!
You’re an idiot. You, “OBAMA IS COMING 4 OUR GUNZZZZ!” types have been like that for years and by now you’re desperate for anything that validates what people now see as a ridiculous fear.
So desperate that this publication leaves out that he was storing 225 lbs of gunpowder in his one bedroom apartment. So desperate that any mention of his ammunition manufacturing equipment, and his lack of licensing to produce and sell ammo, is absent.
Why, it’s almost like this article was designed to make the guy seem like a law abiding angel who was arrested for no reason! It’s almost like three seconds of looking at different publications reveals details this one would rather pretend don’t exist!
Such as that the generous legal limit for storing gunpowder in a residence is 50 lbs. Also, that it’s incredibly dangerous and stupid to store more than 4 times that in a one bedroom apartment.
Nah, the law applied.
You can’t store more than 50 lbs of gunpowder in a residence. He was storing more than 225 lbs of it in his one bedroom apartment.
He also had equipment for making ammunition despite being unlicensed to manufacture or sell it.
So congratulations, you thought you were defending gun rights and that you had a perfect example of an innocent mans being violated. In reality, you’re supporting black market ammunition and storing mass amounts of flammable, explosive material in tightly populated areas.
New York New York!!
Reese Erch-Guy He had no right to store 225 lbs of gunpowder in his ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT. Federal law states, quite generously, that 50 lbs is the limit for storage in a residence. He was 4 times over that in his tiny apartment. Note that his most severe charge is First Degree Reckless Endangerment.
Do you think he got that charge for having a lot of registered guns, or for having more than 4 times the allowed amount of flammable explosives in his apartment?
And everyone should have 225 lbs of gunpowder in their residence, even if it’s a one bedroom apartment.
Common sense be damned! Muh Guns! Muh Freedoms!
I don’t think the second amendment gives you the right to hoard highly explosive, flammable material in your one bedroom apartment…
Then again, this publication very conveniently leaves out any mention of the 225 lbs of gunpowder that were found in his tiny abode. There’s also no mention of his unlicensed ammo manufacturing setup.
Hm, it’s almost like they went out of their way to make him seem like a martyr…
Smokeless powder is NOT an explosive. BATFE classes it as a propellant. Smokeless powder is what is used in modern ammunition, in case you didn’t know. Black powder is classed as an explosive.
You mention an “ammunition press”. I’ve been reloading my own ammunition for the last 40+ years. It’s not illegal. While I agree that 225 pounds of powder might be excessive, I will also note that in the last “Obama” years powder and primers have been very hard to come by, so we reloaders have had to stockpile components when we can find them. Note here that one powder DOES NOT fit all; different powders are required for different firearms and calibers (I’ve never heard of the aforementioned 50 pound restriction, but I’m not saying it does not exist.) If he had say, 5 different handguns and 5 different rifles, all in different calibers, right there is the need for up to 10 different powders. Then throw in the fact that different bullet weights and styles within a specific caliber may require different powders, and you can double or even triple that number of different powders. In the eyes of anti-gunners, there is no difference between an avid shooting enthusiast and a terrorist when the press mentions 250 pounds of gunpowder.
I like developing a specific load around a specific bullet and trying over a period of time to get the highest accuracy. Shooting (and reloading) is a discipline, just like playing the piano is a discipline. (Before you say that a piano isn’t a deadly weapon, I challenge you to stand under one falling from a height of 20 feet. The frame holding the strings is solid cast iron, and EXTREMELY heavy. Weapon, no. Deadly, definitely yes.
It was something about a registered pistol inspection. Not too sure.
I’m just glad they caught the nut. This publication is horrible because they leave out two important details.
He was charged with first degree reckless endangerment for having 225 lbs of gunpowder in his one bedroom apartment. This is 4 times the legal limit of 50lbs allowable to be stored in a residence. And it’s simply common sense that that much gun powder in that small a residence is dangerous as all hell. It wouldn’t explode but it could make a hell of a fire if even a fraction of it went up.
The second detail is the black market, unlicensed ammo manufacturing equipment the guy had.
As I said, this publication is a rag. They left out two very important details because the truth interfered with the narrative they wanted to paint. It’s such blatant manipulation of the facts that it makes me sick. They essentially fooled their readers into hero worshiping a black market arms dealer whose entire apartment building was in danger.
There is such a thing as too much gunpowder stored in a one bedroom apartment.
Hell, generous federal regulations say 50 lbs is alright to store in a residence. This guy had 225 lbs of it in his tiny abode.
But of course, that interferes with the narrative that he’s a martyr in the gun rights movement, so this publication failed to report on that.
They also fail to mention the ammo manufacturing equipment that was in his apartment and that he was unlicensed to manufacture or sell ammo.
In fact, this article dances around the truth entirely in it’s attempts to make a black market ammo dealer seem like a saint who was endangering nobody with his private stock of weapons.