No one I know.
A man in Richmond, California, was arrested last month with a cache of 248 illegally owned guns and 1 million rounds of ammo in his home, the state attorney general said on Thursday.
The man, who was not named, is “alleged to be legally barred from owning weapons,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement.
Bureau of Firearms agents searching the man’s home on January 31 found 11 military-style machine guns, 133 handguns, 37 rifles, 60 assault rifles, 7 shotguns, and 3,000 large-capacity magazines, Bonta said.
I know absolutely nothing about this event but I’m going to hazard a guess that this guy may have some amigos in Mexico, if you know what I’m suggesting.
My normal response to an article about someone getting caught with x number of guns and y rounds of ammo is to make a smart-ass comment about how “Those are rookie numbers”. Not this time, thats actually a fairly impressive pile.
I saw a study of where convicts got the guns they used in their crimes and it was what most legal gun owners would have suspected. About a quarter came from family or girlfriends doing straw purchases. Another 30%+ were stolen by the convict from a car or house they broke into. Another 30%+ were bought on the black market and the final 10% or so were actually purchased legally, before they became a felon. The whole gun show loophole propaganda and all the other MSM BS was disproved by the professors who studied the issue. The survey was conducted by the professors and their grad students interviewing well over a thousand convicts in a dozen or so prisons, so the statistically, the findings are valid. But, obviously since the findings go against the official narrative, most people didn’t see the study.
This guy seems to me to be one of those black market sources in the study.
From anecdotal observations of the felons I’ve been around those numbers seem reasonable.
Yep, I agree this looks more to be a smuggling operation than just some guy with a lot of guns. All the weapons appeared to be in good condition and working order.
The 21st Century Burt Gummer
Im more inclined to think the 21st century Yuri Orlov
I more inclined to think the Richmond CA Pablo Escobar.
I’d also like to know how “Bureau of Firearms agents” stumbled onto this little collection.
Those guys are usually too busy harassing gun store owners to ever actually go after felons with weapons.
Other links say they were retrieving weapons from a person who was later determined to be prohibited and came upon his complete assortment. I’m guessing he was incarcerated at the time.
Which collection also included inert grenades, several suppressors and >gasp!< flare guns!!!, which last item you can pick up at most Wal-Marts, even here in Califrutopia!
Also, this happened a month ago, but they’re only just now cock-a-doodle-dooing about it???
Did they have to take their shoes off to count the rounds of ammunition, or what?
I’m also taking bets he gets charged with maybe 5 extra minutes in prison for the whole lot. Unless he’s white, middle class, and got popped for misdemeanor domestic violence or somesuch b.s. to justify the original search and confiscation. In which case they’ll throw the book at him, and give him consecutive sentences per count, adding up to about 50,000 years in the pokey.
Thank Dog for all them effective gun lawz.
A fairly diverse collection from the pictures. I can see some all time gangbanger favourites like at least three Mac10s, but also a couple old school guerrilla pieces, like a British Sten and a Sterling SMG. I would have thought the amigos in Mexico got better stuff though, considering that most of the time they are supplied by a random three letter government agency in some kind of crazy scheme…
Thanks from Italy,
Daniele
You consider those numbers just FAIRLY impressive? Dang, you’re a tough man to impress!
The number of guns doesnt impress me. However, thats a very impressive amount of ammo.
Not 10k per he was still short ,but even for a Marine 10k of 50BMG is a lot
I’m impressed also and I give a big BRAVO to him for his stash.Funny how all those gun laws didn’t apply to or stop him?
After the collapse,He will be the new Ammo Walmart.
We all now have a new ammo level to aspire to and will have to up our game.
CZ, you sure that ammo amount isn’t just a slow weekend for you:}
I know a guy who says his goal is to have 1 million rounds of 22 stashed… In addition to other calibers, of course!
He reloads, alot, but doesn’t want to reload 22, for reasons I fully appreciate.
Kinda scratching my head on that “military-style machine guns” thing. As opposed to “Spring-Fashion style”? “Gluten-Free style”? Mebbe “PG-13 Rated style……..
May be a real chance to test Bruen as these laws are blatantly unconstitutional under the ruling. Not one of those was banned in 1791 ,and back then they handed your gun back as you walked out of jail.
Be skeptical, whenever a news piece arises on any political hot potato subject matter, assume more times than not it is a total “Operation Mockingbird Bird” program. There now has to be larger and more over the top production values involved to garner any interest or fear factor in the general public these days. Your .gov / deep state is proven to be perpetrators themselves of false flag or total fake news operations. Additionally as an aside note, there are folks out there, kinda like us here, who are absolute acolytes of the “gun culture”. As many in this arena know, some folks go pro, and really do collect and own that many guns and ammo amounts. It is like a dope or drug effect for hobbyists in this realm. Being a
“prohibited person”, for whatever .gov reasonings or legalities, or laws on the books to ban this, it will not deter those fervent biblical level adherents from amassing their guns and ammo stocks. For every news report with green screen, doctored photos imagery of scary guns and depicted bad guys, there are uncountable numbers of gun culture participants, like squirrels, just storing away those nuts, just because and just in case.
If you’ve ever been to Richmond, California you’d say that this was about what you’d need to stay alive there…
I’d be kinda suspicious regarding that million rounds of ammunition number. That would be a thousand thousand-round cases of ammo(assuming it was all smaller rifle or pistolcalber). Which number – IIRC from the wild days of my ill-spent yout – would roughly fill a 40 ft Con-ex. i
Youre not taking into consideration the variability in ammo size. A million rounds of .50 BMG may take up a cargo container (or two). A million rounds of.22 can fit in a closet. A brick of Winchester is 3x4x3.5. Thats 40.5 cu. inches. Thats 42.6 bricks per cubic foot, or 21,000 rounds per cubic foot. One million rounds would be 47.6 cubic feet. Or, put another way, a square three feet by three by just over five feet tall would hold a million rounds of .22. Thats an average size closet.
Was all the ammo .22? Almost certainly not. But it also almost certainly wasnt .50 BMG either, so without knowing what caliber the ammo was we cant really say how much space that million rounds took up. SO, in the final analysis, yes, its possible there was a million rounds of ammo there. We just won’t know for sure without more detail.
And, authorities are not naming the suspect.
If this was a big sting operation they wouldn’t arrest this guy without figuring out who supplied him and who was buying from him. Meaning, why arrest this guy unless their investigation is finished. If it’s finished then why not name him.
And, the BATFE(LBQ+) is pretty much disinterested in actually doing any work.
My brother is a retired cop and once took an actual STEN from a felon in possession. He contacted ATF and an an agent came down and took possession of the weapon and said he was not interested in any federal charges and just charge him with the usual ‘felon in possession’ at the state level.
Funny how the feds want local law enforcement to help them with federal gun law enforcement but go the opposite direction on federal immigration enforcement.
That’s enough weapons and ammo for a light infantry company of the CCP. If the article is accurate that’s 12 mags per weapon. Understand not all of them take mags nor did they list everything. But for a starting total chaos it’s a perfect stash.
If you search for info on this story online you’ll find other stories with much more info. The guy is 90 years old and a lifelong firearms collector. He’s been in a nursing home for 6 years now and was recently declared legally incompetent which is why the police showed up to take the guns. He’s had a C&R FFL for 60 plus years and all of the automatic weapons were NFA registered and tax paid. All purchased years ago and legal for him to own. The media slant of calling these illegal CA weapons is that they could not be purchased now by anyone in CA. Perfectly legal for this collector to own though.
Thanks for the rest of the story.
IOW, “nothing to see here”, and also why no charges of any sort can or will be filed.
Pity he didn’t have some younger friends to hand all those toys down to, off the books, just to monkey-wrench TPTB.
Looking at that collection and after reading the rest of the story, I kinda doubt there was much .22LR ammo in that stash, heh, heh.
I’m not saying there wasn’t 1M rounds there, just that unless somebody took the time to actually count it, I’d be a leeettle skeptical. ‘Course if he had been collecting long enough, he had probably been buyin’ ammo in the days of surplus AK @$0.07/rd and other such bargains. So maybe. . .
Back when, I once got a one-time deal on surp 8mm Mauser for $50/crate + shipping(800rd sealed crate). Ah,yes, the good old days of surplus ammo deals.
Lightweight.