Buying guns over the internet, without an FFL, is illegal
But the police and media seem to be saying otherwise:
Police say they’ve seized 80 firearms in a raid on a Staten Island house and they’ve made one arrest. Officers executed a search warrant around noon Tuesday and discovered the weapons — mostly handguns, rifles and stun guns.
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Investigators say it appears Granato had been buying the guns over the Internet.
And: On Tuesday 03/03/09, at approximately 12:00, members of the NYPD’s Firearms Suppression Division executed a search warrant
At least the name is honest.
Charged with criminal possession of a weapon. In NY, who knows what that means.
March 4th, 2009 at 11:55 am
He had a gun within 50 miles of a school, church, or post office and wasn’t actually using it to break clay pigeons at the time.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Might be C&R. Pic looks like collector/ old guns esp. the pepper box and Over/under pistol behind it.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
BTW, you need permits for black powder guns in New York?
(rifle barrel w/ tamper, bottom left)
March 4th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
As someone who currently lives on Long Island, here’s NY laws:
State law is, the AWB never went away. Handgun ownership is only with a handgun permit. Concealed carry permits are easy to get, just be a celebrity. I do not have a handgun permit, I recall reading a few years back that they were easy in one half of the town I live in, hard in the other because different people issued them. I forget which half was which.
But this was on Staten Island, so it’s NYC. Laws are much stricter there. I’m not sure how much stricter, but having a handgun without a permit is a no no in the state, and those permits are (I believe) hard to get in NYC. He could be charged with buying handguns without a permit to own.
Just a guess, as the article does not mention any crime.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Apparently Bloomberg created the Firearms Suppression Division in 2006 to elevate gun ownership… er.. crime to the levels of Narcotics and Major Automotive Crime.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I’d surely like to know under what basis the warrant was obtained.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
10 to 1, he’s having “relationship issues” with a “significant other”!
March 4th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Where can I get one of these internet gunprinters? Does Algore know about this?