I do not consider 17 firearms an "arsenal, but the guy is a dumbass for buying the suppressors and other items.

https://www.abqjournal.com/143...nd-with-arsenal.html

KAFB airman found with arsenal

BY MIKE GALLAGHER / JOURNAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2020 at 8:50pm
Updated: Thursday, March 19th, 2020 at 8:15am

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A U.S. airman assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base is in federal custody after military investigators searching his KAFB residence found a cache of 17 firearms, two silencers, large amounts of ammunition, bomb-making instructions and photos of rifle magazines with the names of mass shooters written on them.

Investigators said in a criminal complaint that Senior Airman Charles Brent Justice, 27, could be a “threat to the general public.”

Justice formally has been charged with possessing a silencer and unlawful importation of a firearm — the silencer he allegedly ordered from a Chinese company.

The photographs found on his cellphone showed the names of mass shooters written on white ink on AR-15 compatible magazines. Included among the names were Alexandre Bissonette, who shot and killed several people at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, and Luca Traini, who targeted African migrants in Italy.

Other photographs were related to the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand.

Federal law enforcement in Albuquerque have been paying close attention to gun parts coming out of China, including automatic conversion devices called auto-sears and silencers. There are several pending cases filed here in the last year charging gang members and convicted felons with possessing the parts and converting semiautomatic weapons into machine guns.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted a package addressed to Justice at the international postal station at John F. Kennedy airport in New York City. Agents opened the package because the Chinese company that sent it was known to ship silencers into the U.S. illegally.

Agents found information that Justice had placed orders with Chinese vendors of shipping firearm-related devices like the silencer in the past.

The specific silencer agents found was sold under the name of “Inline Filter” with the intent to disguise it as an automotive part.

Once they found the silencer, agents notified Air Force Office of Special Investigation agents who questioned Justice and searched his residence on the base. The search was carried out under military rules based on authority granted by Col. David Miller, Commander, 377th Air Base Wing.

Air Force investigators found a buttstock designed to be attached to a Glock pistol, making it a short-barreled rifle, and a Glock compatible auto-sear that attaches to Glock pistols allowing the pistol to function as a machine gun.

The complaint notes that possession of both the auto-sear attachment and the buttstock are illegal and that Justice received both items from Chinese vendors. No additional charges have been filed regarding those devices, but Justice also faces the possibility of additional charges in military court.

Investigators also found instructions on making “Molotov” cocktails and other explosive devices.

Investigators found that Justice did not have permission to store firearms at his on-base residence.

After Air Force investigators conducted their search, they called in agents from Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who filed the federal charges.

Dumb ass got rightfully nailed. A Senior Airman. I dont get that. No telling what the guy may have been up to. And china stinks. I hope LE nails every illegal weapon and part they try to ship here.

We all have our "arsenals", and they are not illegal. It's the other stuff that he's alleged to possess that are going to nail him, if what's written is not made up.

There is nothing illegal with owning 17 firearms. Many collectors here have more.

Illegal silencers? An affinity with psychos? Bomb making instructions? SBR parts?

That is just stupid. If you can't follow the law, you don't deserve this hobby.

H&K-Guy

Truth...but it might be fun to have an auto sear for my Glock for a little while

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
There is nothing illegal with owning 17 firearms. Many collectors here have more.

Illegal silencers? An affinity with psychos? Bomb making instructions? SBR parts?

That is just stupid. If you can't follow the law, you don't deserve this hobby.

H&K-Guy

I hate when people like him get press. On the lighter side, who really needs Molotov cocktail instructions?

His arsenal game is weak.

Also, he's a douche. I think that's the bigger sin. Douche-dom. I anticipate a mixture of UCMJ and civilian justice coming his way, and I will not feel even a tiny bit sorry for him.

I live, as many here know, in the UK.

I have nineteen firearms.

NOT an arsenal.

People in our club in the HBSA have upwards of forty/fifty rifles and carbines - none of them black powder muzzle loaders like some of mine.

One of our members collects Webley shotguns of all eras - he has around 200 or more, he can't recall zackly how many.

There will always be alarmists in every part of society, in your country and in mine. sometimes there will be some justification for concern, as there was with this guy, not just because of his VAST number of guns, but because he side-stepped the legal system to obtain his silencer. His 'interests' in mass-murder makes him instantly suspect, and rightly so.

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Originally posted by Kuisis:
On the lighter side, who really needs Molotov cocktail instructions?

People dumb enough to order illegal suppressors from China?

Having the 17 guns at his on-base residence is legal provided he has them registered with base law enforcement. You would not believe the number of illegal items people have shipped through the mails. This guy seems to have had nefarious intentions.

He was a senior airman. Now he's a prisoner. No brighter or dumber than the next. They should find a anvil and hammer his balls to mush while he's still awake. What a fool.

I don't know if we can trust the media (ever). 17 guns is barely enough for anyone. I personally have no idea how many I have. It could easily be over that 17 number. I sure hope so. I can only see one from where I'm sitting. I'd have to move to see more. That would entail me getting up, and I don't feel like it.

He sounds like a wack job waiting to happen.

Does anyone find any irony in his last name being Justice??? Looks to me like he'll be FACING some "justice" after that dumbassery...

I live on KAFB.

I'm glad they got this guy; sounds like he was an active shooter waiting to happen. The number of guns is irrelevant to me, but the illegal purchase of NFA items and the active shooter names on the mags...

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Originally posted by 18Z50:
He sounds like a wack job waiting to happen.

That's my take, too !! Glad they took him.

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
I live on KAFB.

I'm glad they got this guy; sounds like he was an active shooter waiting to happen. The number of guns is irrelevant to me, but the illegal purchase of NFA items and the active shooter names on the mags...

Fully agreed!

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Originally posted by Sigmund:

The photographs found on his cellphone showed the names of mass shooters written on white ink on AR-15 compatible magazines. Included among the names were Alexandre Bissonette, who shot and killed several people at a mosque in Quebec City, Canada, and Luca Traini, who targeted African migrants in Italy.

Other photographs were related to the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand.

Interesting that the author of this piece chose to highlight the above killings.

Pure journalism or journalism seasoned with propaganda?



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Originally posted by bronicabill:

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Originally posted by flesheatingvirus:
I live on KAFB.

I'm glad they got this guy; sounds like he was an active shooter waiting to happen. The number of guns is irrelevant to me, but the illegal purchase of NFA items and the active shooter names on the mags...

Fully agreed!

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Agreed, I've got family and friends that work on KAFB.

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There is nothing illegal with owning 17 firearms. Many collectors here have more.

Owning no, keeping in your residence, maybe. There is if he was living in the dorms. No weapons there when I was in. I don't know if there's a limit if you're living in base-housing or not.

I had a shotty when I was in the AF and my buddy in base housing stored it for me because I didn't want it in the armory.

So 17 guns is all it takes to have an arsenal? These idiots in the media would have a meltdown if they looked in the safes of sigforum members.