Posted on 04/17/2018 10:48:38 AM PDT by PROCON
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.
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Notice all the publicity seekers standing there. They would shoot you cold upon any order.
Hmmm. Seems just an average collection in Utah, Idaho or Wyoming. What’s the big deal? You can only use one at a time anyhow.
50,000 rounds? Meh. Decent stash, but I've seen bigger.
Folks, I’m gonna withhold judgment on this one until the facts come out.
Could be completely legit. I have about as many as was seized.... but I don’t live in liberal la-la land.
He could well be involved in illegal activities. Wait for the full story.
FYI this would seem to indicate that NYC police (in contravention to Mears’s assertion of a couple of weeks ago) will indeed confiscate firearms.
Nice group photo of a bunch of thieves.
““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.””
Walking into Charleston Heston’s basement would have
sent these guys over the edge.
A couple of Yugo RPKs. Hard to tell but I’m not seeing a 3rd pin.
What’s....fuggitabout It!
Colt bought Armalite’s patent on the AR.
Congrats NY. You’ve made a certain convicted felon out of a 60 year old collector who wasn’t harming anyone and hadn’t harmed anyone. Quick! Better throw this dangerous dissident behind bars for the rest of his life for the hideous crime of disagreeing with your politics.
Sieg Heil!
"...unprecedented..."
This is nothing but a regular day at the range in the free state of Sweet Home Alabama. Too bad he had to live in that totalitarian place that does not recognize the Constitutionally-protect right to keep and bear arms.
Should have moved to Georgia.
Here, this would be a modest start of a collection.
What was the charge?
Didn’t mention a law being broken in the excerpt.
5.56mm
Well said!
> after a tip about illegal weapons
Good job comrade! The State is now safer.
Precisely. In Arizona this would not be an atypical "collection".
I had to abandon my home state of California in order to avoid imperial infringement and reclassification from citizen to subject.
More than likely, he is a collector. According to the 2nd Amendment, he broke no laws.
What a shame. A very nice collection.
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