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Throck

(2,520 posts)
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 01:26 AM Jan 2022

Rhode Island man, 34, is caught making untraceable 'GHOST' guns

Rhode Island man, 34, is caught making untraceable 'GHOST' guns and 'using his MOTHER to smuggle them into the Dominican Republic where they sold for thousands of dollars'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394801/amp/Rhode-Island-man-34-apprehended-federal-authorities-selling-ghost-guns.html

Robert Alcantara was taken into custody at his Providence, Rhode Island, home last Thursday for conspiring to traffic ghost guns
He was charged in a Rhode Island court for conspiring to traffic ghost guns and making a false statement to law enforcement agents
Federal agents raided the 34-year-old's residence and confiscated 45 untraceable weapons that he had reportedly assembled
Prosecutors allege that he and co-conspirators purchased gun parts between September 2019 and November 2021
He allegedly sold or attempted to sell 100 firearms that were built with the parts that were purchased
Text messages recovered by prosecutors revealed that he was planning to use his mother to traffic ghost guns to the Dominican Republic for other clients

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Rhode Island man, 34, is caught making untraceable 'GHOST' guns (Original Post) Throck Jan 2022 OP
Life in prison, no fucking parole. Enter stage left Jan 2022 #1
Merchant of death Busterscruggs Jan 2022 #2
 

Busterscruggs

(448 posts)
2. Merchant of death
Fri Jan 14, 2022, 06:42 AM
Jan 2022

Anyone sick enough to assemble these assault weapons needs to have every punishment thinkable thrown at them.

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