This is going to get interesting.

https://patch.com/connecticut/southington/armed-man-busted-assault-weapon-charges-after-southington-raid

Ooooooh....  a THOUSAND rounds of ammunition.  Run fer yer lives!

1000 rounds of ammo and like 8 guns. I feel bad for this guy. He was so poor.....

It's impossible to know what that refers to without knowing more details about the incident. For example, depending on its barrel length, the stockless AR could be a pistol/revolver as defined. Also, remember the limited scope of the dwelling house exemption- it doesn't cover the curtilage of a resident or the common areas of apartment buildings/complexes.

Search warrant ordered sealed by the court? Is that standard procedure or is there more to this story. Seems like overwhelming response (multiple agencies/state/federal) if this was just a simple case of a few guns/magazines that were not registered with the state. Like the court sealing the search warrant because police are still looking to round up others.

Apparently he was trying to sell the completed 80% AR on armslist and police obtained videos of the short barreled AR with a stock installed.

If you set up one of the typical ar15.com general topic "guilty/not guilty" threads I would vote "guilty"



https://www.wfsb.com/news/southington-man-found-with-several-weapons-ammunition/article_d6d90042-ecdb-11e8-a4d3-63f7cd0e656d.html
"Court documents show Southington Police got a tip back in September that a resident was selling an assault rifle on armlist.com that was advertised as, "No brand. New. Has drop in trigger. No serial. Completed from 80 lower. Carbine length. No paperwork. I need money."

http://www.bristolpress.com/BP-Southington+Herald+News/339615/southington-police-charge-man-with-possession-of-assault-weapon-29-high-capacity-magazines
"State prosecutor Jeffrey Lee went a step further than Cronan, calling Lam’s matter “the most dangerous” he has dealt with since Cronan began presiding as the judge in Bristol last year. Lee asked that bail be set at $1 million, saying Lam is bringing in parts of guns from out of state and using them to assemble assault rifles with no serial numbers"

And there you go. Nothing in the new law will stop guns from being sold if one is willing to break said (stupid/unconstitutional) law to make money. Funny how I could see this ending up like the war on drugs where the Democrats chase their own tail with new "for the children" anti rights law and guns are still every bit as prevalent and available (if not more so) as they were before the Democrats went down this anti rights path.

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Interesting - all the hi cap magazine possessions were class D felony's, but the possession of AW were only class A misdemeanors...

And the different dates on the charges and the majority of those charges including the 29 felonies will not be prosecuted. He is in trouble but it's all in the bargaining

The charge related to carrying a pistol without a permit (29-35) has a mandatory minimum sentence associated with it....

If true, he drew the wrong state's attorney.   Good luck with that.

Of all the laws the legislature has conjured out of the ether, people are lucky Idiocy in the First Degree isn't one of them.  "I need money."  Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius right there.

I am not saying he isn't in trouble ..., but he will cop a plea and 26 felonies will go away! Prosecutors have their agenda and judges have another... it's jut the way justice and the world work! You know this so .... I am speaking to those that believe , not those that understand!
2-5... maybe 5-7 but that's it! its a flawed system but it's out system.

And then there is this out of Willy !! They are also bringing up the ghost gun law again Hopefully they don't try to railroad something through before I get a chance on starting my Glock 21 build.

WILLIMANTIC – Mohammadreza “Reza” Kamali told an undercover agent that demand for his guns was “high.”

Demand was so high he was having trouble keeping up with orders from customers.

Kamali’s guns were special – Glock pistols and AR-15-style rifles assembled piece-by-piece and missing serial numbers that police could use to trace them.

And Kamali wasn’t a felon or a gun shop owner gone rogue, but an 18-year-old student who lived with his parents in a single-family house in Willimantic, complete with a white picket fence out front. Kamali was arrested by federal authorities earlier this month and is expected to be arraigned in court in New Haven on Thursday in connection with selling multiple so-called “ghost” guns on the street.

When asked if he was concerned about one of his “customers” getting caught, Kamali was defiant, according to federal documents obtained Tuesday.

“What they gonna say? The 18-year-old is making 10 guns a (expletive) week? That (expletive) not gonna hold up in court,” he told an undercover agent, according to federal documents. “I deal with so many people, I could care less.”

The investigation of Kamali began earlier this year when he was 17 years old and continued into October when federal documents show he sold multiple AR-15-style rifles to an undercover federal agent. Kamali is suspected of ordering multiple gun parts from companies across the country to assemble completed rifles and pistols in an effort to avoid federal and state restrictions on firearms sales.

Federal gun agents became involved in the case in March after the father of a 14-year-old boy intercepted a package carrying gun parts that was addressed to him at his home in Willimantic. The teenager’s father alerted police and his son told police that Kamali, his classmate, had asked if he could ship the parts to his home.

With that information in hand, police interviewed Kamali, who told them he and the 14-year-old had ordered all of the parts needed to assemble a 9 mm pistol. Police told him it wasn’t illegal to order the parts, but warned him that he could not assemble the pistol, as he couldn’t legally own it.

In addition to the pistol parts, Kamali surrendered an “80-percent” lower receiver for an AR-15-style rifle. Those 80-percent receivers, sometimes referred to as “blanks,” are crucial to create a working rifle, as other parts, including the grip and ammo magazine, fit into them. Special tools, additional parts and the know-how, such as drilling holes in metal, are needed in order to convert the receiver into a working, but untraceable, firearm that lacks serial numbers.

Police need those numbers to trace guns used in crimes back to people who sold them or who were the victims of theft.

Several packages were also sent to the teen’s home and split between them were the parts and tools needed to assemble a working Glock pistol, according to federal authorities.

Months after being warned that assembling the guns was illegal, Kamali continued to offer the firearms for sale, according to a federal search warrant.

A source told Willimantic Police that Kamali was again offering weapons for sale that lacked identifying serial numbers.

Police referred the case to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms who carried out an undercover operation in late October to arrest Kamali. Posing as a potential buyer, an undercover agent ordered several guns and arranged for a meet.

Kamali had already told a police source he sold similar firearms to people in Windham County and would later tell an undercover agent the demand for the weapons was so high he couldn’t keep up, according to federal documents.

Kamali told the agent he would need to sneak the rifle out of his home, as his parents didn’t know about his firearms dealing, according to federal documents.

While the agent sat with the teen in a car parked outside a Stop & Shop in Willimantic, Kamali handed over two AR-15-style rifles, along with a partially assembled Glock pistol for a total of $1,350.

Kamali bought at least six, lower receivers for AR-15s from a company in Tennessee, federal authorities learned after contacting the business. He was also set to receive shipments of parts from companies in California, Tennessee and Iowa, but authorities intercepted those packages.

State lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee advanced a House bill in the 2018 session that would have outlawed so-called ghost guns, like those authorities allege were assembled by Kamali, but bipartisan opposition stymied the legislation from being called for a House vote.

House Bill 5540 proposed to regulate homemade guns assembled from kits of parts available for sale. Currently, people can legally buy those parts from various dealers.

The proposal would have required someone obtain a serial number and identification mark from the state police before completing assembly or manufacture of a firearm, including 3D printed guns.

Violations would have been a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment, up to a $10,000 fine, or both. The legislation proposed a minimum mandatory sentence of two years and a minimum mandatory fine of $5,000.

Kamali, who was detained without bond, was charged with dealing firearms without a license.

I think the session starts 6 Jan

They need a couple of days to congratulate and fellate each other, before they start butt fucking us.

Interestingly, I know the author who wrote that article for the patch. I'd run in to him from time to time at BBQ's. He's an wicked anti-gun liberal. I had a few words with him.