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Rhode Island man, 34, caught making untraceable 'GHOST' guns, 'using his MOTHER to smuggle them into the Dominican Republic where they sold for thousands of dollars'
2022-01-14
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • 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 five 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
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  


Why make them here & ship?

Hell's bell's.
Purchasing the computer controlled milling equip, lower blanks, misc parts and etc.... Can be acquired just about anywhere in the North America Hemp. and shipped legally.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-01-14 10:52  

#3  Didn't make sense to me.
Ship the parts to DR, assemble them there.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-14 09:48  

#2  ...I know a boy's best friend is his mother, but that's kinda pushing it....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2022-01-14 06:46  

#1  Well, keep the old girl busy. I mean, she can nap on the plane.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Ulomolet3546   2022-01-14 04:27  

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