Posted on 05/05/2023 7:11:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
As a convicted felon, Ramos was prohibited from owning any firearms.
An investigation into a string of graffiti incidents culminated with Portland Police busting a ghost gun workshop operated by one of the taggers. Jacob Ramos, 43, was arrested and hit with a slew of charges, including eleven counts of manufacturing firearms. His tagging partner, 26-year-old Shelaleh Rostami, was also charged, but only for the graffiti.
The investigation, launched by Mayor Ted Wheeler, sought to track down those responsible for defacing the city's infrastructure. Authorities were able to identify Rostami via her tag, "THUJA," and connect her to Ramos, "BIER," and carry out search warrants on both their residences, according to the Willamette Week.
According to the Portland Police, while the investigation into graffiti artists began in 2021, it was only over the past few months that they zeroed in on "chronic offenders" THUJA and BIER. The pair's tags were spotted all over the city, including on art murals downtown and in the Central Eastside Industrial District.
As the Willamette Week reports, police discovered an Instagram account that portrayed the THUJA tag, and were able to use it to link the graffiti to Rostami. A digital footprint provided by Meta revealed that the posts were coming from a home in nearby Beaverton.
In January, authorities executed a search warrant on the home, and found numerous graffiti-related items. A look through her phone led them to identify Ramos as BIER.
Police soon obtained a search warrant for his home in East Portland, and carried it out. They discovered graffiti equipment, as well as seventeen illegally possessed guns and body armor. As a convicted felon, Ramos was prohibited from owning any firearms.
Perhaps most striking was the discovery of a "gun manufacturing workshop" which consisted of a "3D printer, specialized jigs, power tools, raw components and scrap materials that were used to print and mill several of the functioning, non-serialized, polymer and metal firearms." One of Ramos' guns was a non-serialized short barrel AR-15 style rifle.
Ramos was subsequently charged with eleven counts of manufacturing a firearm, being in possession of a firearm as a felon, possession of a short barrel rifle, ten counts of criminal mischief in the first degree, and fifty counts of criminal mischief in the second degree.
Ghost guns, such as those that are 3D printed, have become a growing issue in the United States, as they are not trackable by authorities.
Sounds like a nice young man that should have taken up a fun and healthy recreational pasttime instead of choosing to deface property.
Something like canoeing.
As it should be.
When the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified, every single gun was a ghost gun. And they were not infringed.
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Sadly, my first reaction to reading the headline was, “I wonder why the cops busted him and didn’t just give him one of those Junior Detective badge stickers?”
“As a convicted felon, Ramos was prohibited from owning any firearms.”
That really stopped him didn’t it.
I am seriously surprised that they would go after graffiti. I figured up there they would enshrine it as “public art”.
Tagging is the first sign that the gangs are actively working in your town.
There is a special database for guns reported stolen. That is a different process.
They tagged murals which are usually connected to wokeness
Political power grows out of the nozzle of a 3-D Printer.
***Once a gun gets a couple of decades past its retail sale date, tracing serves no useful purpose. ***
One should inventory their firearms and see which ones are still traceable. I wish I had kept all those I bought before 1969.
Yeah. I have several that were purchased from private parties or inherited when I got married that no one knows I have. And until July 1, 2019, firearms in New Mexico could be sold to private parties with no FFL check. It's a misdemeanor if you are convicted of violating the law, so many are probably not following the letter of the law.
“Most of the guns in the United States are “non-traceable”. Once a gun gets a couple of decades past its retail sale date, tracing serves no useful purpose.”
My father had ten siblings. In his family alone there are probably dozens of guns that have been handed down to children and grandchildren. Most of these guns were originally purchased when you could buy them at the local general/hardware store and no records were kept as to who purchased them.
That’s not even taking into consideration the guns that were traded or even won or lost at poker games from that generation. I would think there are thousands such guns in American households. Dad often came home from hunting with brothers and friends with a different gun than he left home with. LOL.
This was tagging, which is a form of graffiti, but in no way artistic. Just gangs trying to mark their territory. If they do go after graffiti vandals, they tend to go after the taggers more than the standard graffiti vandals.
There is NO WAY he was making firearms with the 3D printer shown in that photo. Maybe a jig but not a firearm. That pic serves for the government to come after cheap 3D printers. Make no mistake the government wants them and will use their hate for guns to ban them.
As for being Portland... There is a certain demographic that perpetrates nearly all violent “gun crime” in the state all fro South East Portland along MLK and Caesar Chavez blvds.
He is being paid. Leftist extremists are arming up and have been for years.
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Oregon State Police go after a lot of broken tail-lights and such. It can lead to DWIs, drug trafficking.....
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