Posted on 04/18/2018 8:34:18 AM PDT by Simon Green
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.
If convicted, Drabman faces up to 25 years in prison.
Only 50,000 rounds ?
What an amateur huh?
What makes the guns illegal? I am confused. And how is 50,000 rounds “unprecedented”? You can buy .22 ammunition in 1,000 round boxes.
Do I see an MP5 ?!?!?
As usual they don’t tell us what about these guns was illegal. I see what looks like a Thompson there but is it fully automatic or just semi automatic? Was the guy a felon in possession or just a guy who likes guns.
“What makes the guns illegal?”
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I believe zip guns may be illegal, at least.
A BM59, probably going to be destroyed! I’m gonna be sick
Don't ever talk about your "collection"
He was ready for the Zombie Apocalypse.
Criminal possession is the main issue.
Guess he sold his boat.
Don’t keep your collection in a tyrannical state like NY, MA, NJ, or CA.
I need to up my game...
It’s only illegal in the communist states, NY, CA, MA, NJ, CT.
Exactly! He had less than 1,000 rounds per firearm! New Yorkers are funny.
The 81st Pct is in Bed Sty, Brooklyn, not Bayside, Queens.
So he HAD a small gun collection
Pfff
Piker.
Ir is illegal to own "assault" weapons in New York.
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