http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2004/09/01/news/guns.html
The picture shows a whole pile of Sten Mk. IIIs including a couple that look like he made the receiver from square tube. A couple look like they might be suppressed.
PV man faces weapons charge
By DOUG McMURDO
PVT
Police lay out more than a dozen illegal machine guns following a seizure in Pahrump Friday.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized 15 machineguns during a search warrant Friday at the home of an unidentified Pahrump man.
According to Marti McKee, a public information officer with the bureau, the man was "detained, questioned, and released pending federal firearms charges." She declined to release the suspect's identity because he was not arrested.
Friday's seizure, said McKee, came on the heels of a two-month joint investigation involving the bureau and the Nye County Sheriff's Office as part of the multi-jurisdictional Violent Crime Impact Team recently formed in Las Vegas.
Special agents and deputies began an undercover operation in July, McKee said, that resulted in the purchase of four of the machineguns, which were manufactured at a home at 5241 Old Spanish Trails Court in Pahrump.
In addition to the four machineguns sold to undercover operatives, Friday's search yielded 15 more of the illegal weapons and an illegal sawed-off shotgun.
According to McKee, Special Agent in Charge John Torres of the bureau's San Francisco field division, said, "I've got to tell you, I'm very happy to have these extremely lethal weapons out of the ... market. I hate to think where they may have otherwise ended up."
In addition to the sheriff's office and the bureau, the United States Marshal Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, the police departments of North Las Vegas and Henderson, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department assisted in the case, along with the Federal Department of Parole and Probation.
The unidentified deputies who initiated the investigation, said McKee, became suspicious after a routine investigation of a suspicious vehicle. After Sheriff Tony DeMeo authorized a plan of operation, the decision was made to call the ATF and the Violent Crime Impact Team for assistance.
In an interview Monday, McKee said the seizure was the largest of its kind in recent memory. She said machineguns are illegal to own except by military or law enforcement agencies and certified manufacturers of the weapon.
And while McKee said she was not at liberty to discuss many details of the ongoing investigation, she did say it was unlikely the suspect is linked to terrorist organizations.
DeMeo said he was could not elaborate on the investigation, but the sheriff praised his deputies for their work on the case, saying their work was cited as exemplary by bureau officials in Washington, D.C. "I'm very proud of them," he said, "They did an outstanding job."
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I really like this statement: "She said machineguns are illegal to own except by military or law enforcement agencies and certified manufacturers of the weapon. "
The picture shows a whole pile of Sten Mk. IIIs including a couple that look like he made the receiver from square tube. A couple look like they might be suppressed.
PV man faces weapons charge
By DOUG McMURDO
PVT
Police lay out more than a dozen illegal machine guns following a seizure in Pahrump Friday.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized 15 machineguns during a search warrant Friday at the home of an unidentified Pahrump man.
According to Marti McKee, a public information officer with the bureau, the man was "detained, questioned, and released pending federal firearms charges." She declined to release the suspect's identity because he was not arrested.
Friday's seizure, said McKee, came on the heels of a two-month joint investigation involving the bureau and the Nye County Sheriff's Office as part of the multi-jurisdictional Violent Crime Impact Team recently formed in Las Vegas.
Special agents and deputies began an undercover operation in July, McKee said, that resulted in the purchase of four of the machineguns, which were manufactured at a home at 5241 Old Spanish Trails Court in Pahrump.
In addition to the four machineguns sold to undercover operatives, Friday's search yielded 15 more of the illegal weapons and an illegal sawed-off shotgun.
According to McKee, Special Agent in Charge John Torres of the bureau's San Francisco field division, said, "I've got to tell you, I'm very happy to have these extremely lethal weapons out of the ... market. I hate to think where they may have otherwise ended up."
In addition to the sheriff's office and the bureau, the United States Marshal Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, the police departments of North Las Vegas and Henderson, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department assisted in the case, along with the Federal Department of Parole and Probation.
The unidentified deputies who initiated the investigation, said McKee, became suspicious after a routine investigation of a suspicious vehicle. After Sheriff Tony DeMeo authorized a plan of operation, the decision was made to call the ATF and the Violent Crime Impact Team for assistance.
In an interview Monday, McKee said the seizure was the largest of its kind in recent memory. She said machineguns are illegal to own except by military or law enforcement agencies and certified manufacturers of the weapon.
And while McKee said she was not at liberty to discuss many details of the ongoing investigation, she did say it was unlikely the suspect is linked to terrorist organizations.
DeMeo said he was could not elaborate on the investigation, but the sheriff praised his deputies for their work on the case, saying their work was cited as exemplary by bureau officials in Washington, D.C. "I'm very proud of them," he said, "They did an outstanding job."
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I really like this statement: "She said machineguns are illegal to own except by military or law enforcement agencies and certified manufacturers of the weapon. "
