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LOS ANGELES -- A high chance of a mass shooting in Hollywood was thwarted Tuesday by police seizing a cache of guns and ammunition in a high-rise apartment where several rifles were pointed toward a nearby park, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Braxton Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday after he allegedly made violent threats involving weapons to security staff at the apartment building and people outside, the agency said the following day.
A search of Johnson's apartment turned up two assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, all of which are illegal in California, as well as three handguns, a sniper rifle, a shotgun and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/assault-rifles-ammunition-seized-hollywood-high-rise-96855089
This was down the street from where I live. I'm grateful to the people who reported him and to the police for being proactive.
Aristus
(66,387 posts)n/t
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Cha
(297,311 posts)wnylib
(21,487 posts)Dodged a bullet or several.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)Rebl2
(13,523 posts)on national news this morning. So sick of people being allowed to keep this many guns.
chowder66
(9,073 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)what's to stop agencies from collecting data about the hoarding of weapons and ammunition? When it gets to the point that one very reasonable conclusion would be that the person doing this is probably a danger, then a warrant could be drawn up, weapons seized, lives saved.
they fucking know everything we buy, what we're shopping for, where we are at - why not use data to save people?
I'm thinking especially about the Las Vegas shooter. He was never going to run out of guns and ammo.