NYPD seizes gun collection, ‘unprecedented’ amount of ammo (PHOTOS)

guns.com ^ | April 17, 2018 | Chris Eger

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The guns and ammo were found in the basement of a 60-year-old man’s home in Queens after a search warrant (Photos: NYPD)

Officers with the 81st Precinct in the Bayside area of Queens seized over 60 guns and quantity of ammunition from an area man after a tip about illegal weapons.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown announced Monday that Ronald Drabman, 60, was arrested over the weekend and charged with a staggering 110 weapons violations, mostly for criminal possession. Following a search warrant of his home’s basement, authorities seized 45 long arms, 23 pistols, a zip gun, a couple of airguns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition.

“The defendant is accused of using his home as a warehouse for illegal firearms – along with tens of thousands of rounds of live ammunition,” Brown said. “This stockpile of weapons poses a great risk to the residents of Queens. It is extremely disturbing to find such an arsenal of firearms in a residential community.”

NYPD Chief of Intelligence Thomas Galati said the gun bust was one of the largest in the department’s history from a single individual and well as what he described as an “unprecedented amount of ammunition.”

The firearms shown off at the conference included a number of collectible arms or at least guns rarely seen in Queens. Among these are an AR with what looks like a Colt Light Machine Gun front end, a Mossberg bullpup shotgun, and a Franchi SPAS-12. One of the rifles seems to be a fairly rare Italian BM59 in a Nigerian pistol grip stock while a Mauser 1934 Pocket Model, Walther P-38, and a Browning Hi-Power rest on table display of pistols.

[stevio]

FUNY!

[Blue Jays]

"...you have something to lose..."

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Our comparative success is paradoxically our undoing just as you, Hot Tabasco, and other posters have shared.
That is why smelly hippie leftwingers do things like Occupy Wall Street without need for planning.
It is disconcerting if they continue the strategy of slowly increasing pressure on gunowners instead of making the same 1994 AWB blunder.

[Manly Warrior]

If it has a less than 16 inch bbl and a collapsible stock for a total fixed length of less than 26 inches, it would likely be a class 2 weapon, a short bbl’d rifle, SBR. If the stock is fixed at that short length, or is an arm brace type stock, it would be a pistol per ed law and most states. Probably all the above are illegal except for LE/govt types in NY, but all would be legal ( with a cl2 permit if an SBR) in my state, MO.

[imardmd1]

Actually, as I recall New York State Law requires that each handgun must be added to the owner's permit at purchase. That has to be on record, and accessible to the law enforcement. Are any of the handguns unlawfully possessed? If so, the owner knows the penalty.

And why are the airguns even mentioned in this context?

As far as the long guns are concerned, many of these might have become unlawful to possess, only by the preemptive recently passed, unless there was any grandfathering clause in the legislation. I don't believe there is any restriction on the number of guns a law-abiding citizen can own and keep.

It is grossly unfair that a collector should have to give up thousands of dollars worth of property because the laws were changed.

And where does this pejorative "looks like a Colt Light Machine Gun front end" come from? Gaaaah!