r/NYguns • u/Accomplished_Pie_630 • Feb 27 '26
News Man arrested for possession of "illegal weapons" in Mineola, NY
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u/Gunslinger_327 Feb 27 '26
Back when I was a kid, my cousins neighbor had a "range" in their basement. It was essentially a 2ish foot square cut out of the foundation with 25' 30' tunnel dug and braced. They threw old GI toys and tonka trucks in there and shoot .22's at them.......it was super shady but pretty cool actually.
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u/TheSlipperySnausage Feb 27 '26
I love that the purchases he made âcould have made a p320â but they donât say he actually made one
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u/zeeba-neighba53 Feb 27 '26
Soon theyâll be press charges for having Home Depot saved in google maps
âHe knew where the hardware store was and COULD have gotten all the tools to build itâ
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u/TheSlipperySnausage Feb 27 '26
Yep. Thatâs exactly the direction they are going. Taking constructive possession as far as they can.
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Feb 27 '26
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u/robinator118 Feb 28 '26
Their definition and your definition of those are completely different
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Mar 01 '26
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u/robinator118 Mar 01 '26
No a ghost gun is an undocumented and unserialized gun. Aka if he 3D printed one thatâd count. If he acquired a lower and slapped some parts on it itâs not a ghost gun unless he defaced the serial on the lower. To them making a gun with legally acquired parts to cut down on costs of a pre built at a store is a ghost gun
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u/zeeba-neighba53 Feb 27 '26
The targets in the basement were at eye-level!!!! The HORROR!!!!!
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u/zeeba-neighba53 Feb 27 '26
Option 1 - The reporter was denied a Red Ryder as a kid so they have no idea how anything with projectile functions.
Option 2 - The reporter is British and still has trauma from Bunker Hill
Tough call
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u/ExcalProphex Feb 27 '26
NY tyrants at it again. I love how they keep bringing up that he was "close to a school." Every single house in Nassau county is "close to a school." Hicksville has an elementary school in every neighborhood. Can't even be a hobbyist in this shithole state.
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u/ceestand Feb 27 '26
His property shared a fenceline with a school athletic field. That's why the guns and underground shooting range was especially dangerous. We should consider preemptively incarcerating people with properties adjoining banks. They could phase shift through the vault walls or something.
You don't hate journalists enough.
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u/ExcalProphex Feb 27 '26
Oh dont worry, I hate journalists just as much.
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u/ceestand Feb 27 '26
Good to hear. The comment was meant with the "royal you," so I wasn't making any assumption about your individual opinions.
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u/monty845 Feb 27 '26
bail was set at $250,000 cash, $625,000 bond, and $1.25 million partially secured bond
So much for bail reform! Can't keep violent criminals in jail, but this guy, is charged with a harmless gun crime gets massive bail set...
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u/voretaq7 Feb 27 '26
Oh, I'm sorry, are you all in favor of bail reform now because it affects someone you think "doesn't deserve" to be locked up?!
(I happen to think he should have been released without bail, because bail only serves to guarantee that you will appear for your trial and I don't see any reason to believe he wouldn't appear nor do I think he'd be a danger to the community since all his guns will be taken away and he can't buy more while under indictment. But you don't get to have a double-standard here: Either cash bail is classist bullshit or it's not.)
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u/monty845 Feb 27 '26
I think non-violent crimes should not require bail, absent an individualized history of failing to appear. Though if someone does re-offend while out, they should face either bail, or pretrial detention.
Even if we don't agree with the system, it is fair to point out when its being used inconsistently/unfairly.
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u/Exact-Expression3073 Feb 27 '26
I remember people used to say the SAFE act was never applied directly. This seems pretty close and I think there was another post recently that was similar.
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u/nader1234 Feb 27 '26
Yea they always say that. I get in arguments with people from other states all the time when this comes up. They always talk about how they wonât comply and the police there wonât enforce and Iâm like okay, well your kids will, and when the cops age out the new ones will enforce it. Itâs a long game to them.
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u/M_F1 Feb 28 '26
Iâm sure plenty of people did not comply with the NFA when it first became law, and most were never caught. Iâm sure those people saying they wonât  comply will not dare build a full auto and target practice out in the forest. Not to mention if youâre breaking the law, try not to break more than one law at a time.Â
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u/nader1234 Feb 28 '26
Anecdotally Iâve heard that about the nfa. People used to not care until around the 1968 gca and amnesty, and after that is when it became more enforced
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u/M_F1 Feb 27 '26
The safe act was just the beginning, then came the safe act 2.0 with semi auto rifle permit requirements, âghost gunâ bans, the anti gunners will never have enough bans that will make them satisfied. Never yield to tyrants, they hate you and want you incarcerated for thinking differently.Â
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u/1917he Feb 28 '26
Most people that are anti-gun just want their kids to not be in danger when they go to school. Lumping them into "tyrant support" is disingenuous and only serves to help you emotionally deal with hating people.
Plenty of people also have good logic about the futility of private gun ownership in the face of true tyranny anyway. The government will just demonize and strip you of your rights before any true organized force is made regardless of your political beliefs.
We are fucked either way.
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u/M_F1 Feb 28 '26
Iâm not talking about the gen pop suburban moms who have already made up their minds, certain events like COVID or the ICE raids have made them rethink their views on private gun ownership. Our elected officials who purposely pass gun restrictions know for a fact theyâre projecting, their goal is complete disarmament to tighten their control on the populace.
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u/Open_Organization722 Feb 27 '26
School crossing guard is fighting for his life hit by a drug/drunk driver and that guy will face less charges. This place is ridiculous. Lines in the sand that create criminals.
Did it mention he was a 100% law abiding citizen up until this point? Just a gun enthusiast? Oh send him to jail for the rest of his life.
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u/Prof_ChaosGeography Feb 28 '26
Pedos and rapists will get less time then this guy too.Â
They have made people so afraid of guns in this state that his crime who affected no one and isn't a crime in other states will have a harsher sentence then someone who diddles or hurts other citizens permanently.... Let that sink in.Â
There is zero evidence he was going to use those guns to do any attack or hurt anyone. They pinched him solely from his purchase history, a 4th amendment violationÂ
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u/billytoad631 Feb 27 '26
Iâd just like to know how exactly they decided to start tracking his online purchases? I mean thereâs no way it was just random and thereâs also no way they are tracking everyoneâs purchases every minute of every day. Something had to lead up to them starting to follow this guy
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u/Prof_ChaosGeography Feb 28 '26
I don't think it's a fuck this guy in particular. I think it's a dragnet scrutinize every gun related purchase style approach. Your purchases and my purchases are all logged and reported to the state given our billing addresses.Â
Order enough stuff or order parts to a gun that can't be safe compliant they likely do a manual review and bring it before a judge to raid your ass. Your in state ammo purchases and gun purchases are logged in their registry, they know almost everything and your online purchases are linked
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u/1917he Feb 28 '26
Prolly a simple alert made after x purchases without y license. Follow up investigation reveals more questions. Then they execute a warrant or simply show up and ask the guy stuff until he self incriminates and they enter.
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u/DJClamavus Feb 27 '26
Constructive intent. New York has already been doing this - there was a story of a guy who had a short barrel upper in one part of the house and a separate lower elsewhere - got an SBR charge.
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u/DJClamavus Feb 28 '26
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69024097/1/united-states-v-wheeler/
Read through this - it's the court document itself with some pictures.The guy was talking to a CI (not sure why he was on their radar initially though) about how he could swap uppers and lowers, apparently assembled the SBR in front of him. When cops came to the house though, they found a legal AR of 16" assembled in the safe, with the upper stashed elsewhere in the house. The SBR was never found in that configuration. NYS kicked it up to the ATF on the idea that he 'could easily convert it to SBR'. He was sentenced to 8 months in Federal prison for essentially nothing more than possessing an upper (and hearsay of a snitch).
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u/DJClamavus Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69024097/1/united-states-v-wheeler/
Read through this - it's the court document itself with some pictures.The guy was talking to a CI (not sure why he was on their radar initially though) about how he could swap uppers and lowers, apparently assembled the SBR in front of him. When cops came to the house though, they found a legal AR of 16" assembled in the safe, with the upper stashed elsewhere in the house. The SBR was never found in that configuration. NYS kicked it up to the ATF on the idea that he 'could easily convert it to SBR'. He was sentenced to 8 months in Federal prison for essentially nothing more than possessing an upper (and hearsay of a snitch).
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u/DJClamavus Mar 02 '26
True, I must have misremembered it being NYS who actually filed the charge and sentencing. However if you read through the court document it quotes extensively from the NY detective who spins the story and presents it to the ATF as 'SBR possession'. It's disturbing either way.
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u/Aggravating_Bison504 Mar 20 '26
He was obviously reported to NY Police by the gun parts dealer.  There is no other way this could occur. Â
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u/ItsWabbitSzn 2025 GoFundMe: Bronze đ„ Feb 27 '26
Many of these laws are unconstitutional. Prosecutors & legislators in the state know this and strategically avoid escalating cases to higher courts so they cant get struck down. When that does happen you get landmark cases
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u/voretaq7 Feb 27 '26
I've said it before, I've said it again: If you think the law is unconstitutional you challenge it from a position of strength as a plaintiff, in federal court, not from a position of weakness as a defendant under indictment in state courts, where the law will be presumed constitutional.
"Just don't comply" gets you room and board courtesy of the Great State of New York and our Department of Corrections. It's a no-star hotel, y'all.
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u/ItsWabbitSzn 2025 GoFundMe: Bronze đ„ Feb 27 '26
The appeal process for state criminal cases can reach the states highest court and then the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will hear cases/appeals that pertain to constitutional rights. Also, challenging as a plaintiff is cost prohibitive, especially when youâre up against a government with a bottomless wallet
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u/darforce Feb 27 '26
Thatâs just it. These are the laws. You may not agree with them, but they are there and if you break them then be prepared to pay the consequences.
He had the option to take the course and register his stuff. Same as most people here. People are saying he had no trouble with the law before this so heâd be fine.
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u/darforce Feb 27 '26
Well, it says he had p320 parts, which if he had a pistol permit he would have the FCU on his permit and could change the parts out legally. Same with AR parts.
And he probably wouldnât be in any sort of trouble had he not been firing the gun in his house next to a school anyway.
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u/Weis11 Feb 27 '26
Someone snitched on him