Posted on 03/08/2017 2:14:22 PM PST by heterosupremacist
Brooklyn cops broke up a huge, Virginia-based weapons-smuggling outfit and seized 217 weapons — the biggest firearms bust in the borough’s history, authorities said Wednesday.
Suspect Antwan Walker was recorded on a wiretap saying there’s a nonstop flow of legally purchased guns in Virginia — so much so, said Walker, that “In Virginia I can give guns away.”
“If we can get paid for doing this, you know what I mean? I can buy a gun and go to the same store tomorrow,” Walker said in wiretaps, “and I can do that Monday through Friday.”
Walker was also recorded telling a colleague that their business was all about volume.
“We are trafficking. We are the big dogs,” he said in recordings played by the NYPD and Brooklyn DA. “We’re in this to get the orders up.”
All the weapons seized were purchased legally by suspects or their straw buyers in Virginia, officials said.
“We’re going to go after anyone who brings illegal firearms into our city and into our borough,” acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez told reporters, standing behind a podium and displaying some of the seized guns.
The weapons included AK-47s, AR-15s, Tommy guns, Mossberg 715Ts and MAC-10s, officials said.
Thompson .45 Caliber machine gun with drum magazine. Sweet piece...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Some nice hardware.
Too bad it’s in the wrong hands.
NYC has firearms trafficking because knotheads who run the city have violated the residents’ 2A rights at every turn.
Speakeasies are to Prohibition as Firearms Trafficking is to Gun Banners
How the times have changed. Never would have thought I would have an inkling of respect for a person like Antwan. Guns bought legally (well, sort of), supplying a market, etc.
Of course it is too bad that probally 99% of the folks buying these guns will be thugs and drug dealers, etc. Too bad the good people in NYC can’t legally buy them.
BTW - I’m guessing that Thompson is a replica and a semi-auto???
217 doesn’t seem like a big bust.
I have seen the auto ordnance semi Thompson but I don’t remember seeing it with the drum mag. Barrel length clearly is auto ordnance
That would about be considered a ‘starter collection’ in these here parts.
That is a semi auto...
Yes on the Thompson... You can tell by the barrel length.
Guy looks like Luca Brasi.
You can tell by the barrel length that it is a later NFA compliant reproduction semi-auto.
Very true only illegal because of unconstitutional gun laws
Lucas Brasi indeed.
I don’t get the big deal. I live in Alabama and I would call all the guns on that table as a start to a good collection. I don’t see anything special on the table either.
Doubtful it’s full auto if bought otc in VA...
I see the NY gun laws are stopping the influx of weapons effectively. (B.S.)
You OK brother?
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