LOL! Well, this is a pretty good catch. One nut is suspected of having a weapon illegally..and the cops hit the jackpot!
Of course, the nutz rights were violated, right? After all, he's a well regulated militia all by himself. What with all the personalities and all...don't they all get guns?
The attorney general of California on Tuesday announced felony charges against a man found with a large cache of illegal firearms at his residence in Azusa, including machine guns, silencers and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Officials say the incident underscores the importance of the state's Armed Prohibited Persons System, which identifies people who lawfully procured firearms and later became prohibited from owning or possessing them.
"In our efforts to retrieve just one gun from a prohibited individual, we found dozens of illegal weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition," Attorney General Bonta said in a statement Tuesday.
The man is alleged to be legally barred from owning weapons due to a mental-health based prohibition and was listed in the database as owning one firearm, the statement said. Agents from the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Firearms initially contacted the man at his residence to retrieve his outstanding firearm but were denied entry.
After obtaining a search warrant, agents found four machine guns, seven assault weapons, a short-barreled rifle, four suppressors/silencers, six handguns, one shotgun, four rifles, 54 lower receivers/frames, 41 standard capacity magazines, 87 large-capacity magazines and approximately 35,000 rounds of miscellaneous ammunition, the statement said.
The man was arrested on Jan. 25 and charged with multiple felonies. He was arraigned last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pomona.
In 2006, California became the first and only state in the nation to establish a system for tracking firearm owners who fall into a prohibited status, according to the attorney general's office.
Under the system, people with a prohibited status include those who were convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor, were placed under a domestic violence or other restraining order or suffer from serious mental illness.
Of course, the nutz rights were violated, right? After all, he's a well regulated militia all by himself. What with all the personalities and all...don't they all get guns?
The attorney general of California on Tuesday announced felony charges against a man found with a large cache of illegal firearms at his residence in Azusa, including machine guns, silencers and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Officials say the incident underscores the importance of the state's Armed Prohibited Persons System, which identifies people who lawfully procured firearms and later became prohibited from owning or possessing them.
"In our efforts to retrieve just one gun from a prohibited individual, we found dozens of illegal weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition," Attorney General Bonta said in a statement Tuesday.
The man is alleged to be legally barred from owning weapons due to a mental-health based prohibition and was listed in the database as owning one firearm, the statement said. Agents from the California Department of Justice’s Bureau of Firearms initially contacted the man at his residence to retrieve his outstanding firearm but were denied entry.
After obtaining a search warrant, agents found four machine guns, seven assault weapons, a short-barreled rifle, four suppressors/silencers, six handguns, one shotgun, four rifles, 54 lower receivers/frames, 41 standard capacity magazines, 87 large-capacity magazines and approximately 35,000 rounds of miscellaneous ammunition, the statement said.
The man was arrested on Jan. 25 and charged with multiple felonies. He was arraigned last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pomona.
In 2006, California became the first and only state in the nation to establish a system for tracking firearm owners who fall into a prohibited status, according to the attorney general's office.
Under the system, people with a prohibited status include those who were convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor, were placed under a domestic violence or other restraining order or suffer from serious mental illness.
