Police said they obtained a warrant on Jan. 17 and searched their address.
So-called ghost guns [3d printed firearms] can be printed at home using designs found online.
It was the purchase of components for those weapons that alerted the Queens DA's Crime Strategies & Intelligence Bureau to the pair's alleged activity, leading to a six-month investigation, authorities said.
During the January 17 search of the brothers' residence law enforcement found:
- Eight operational improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
- One partially constructed trip-wire IED
- Two loaded AR-15 style assault weapons, each with a detachable magazine, muzzle compensator and threaded barrel
- Two loaded 9 mm semiautomatic pistols
- Two loaded 9 mm semiautomatic 3D printed ghost gun pistols
- One partially constructed AK-47 style firearm
- Over 600 rounds of ammunition for each of the firearms above
- One 3D printer
- Three sets of body armor
- Six additional AR/pistol lower receivers
- 29 high-capacity ammunition feeding devices, 13 of which were personally manufactured utilizing a 3D printer
- Tools to assemble 3d printed firearms
- Metal knuckles
- A radio set to the frequency of the 114th Precinct in Astoria
- Several electronic devices (phones, computer)
- Numerous notebooks containing instructions on the manufacture of explosive devices and anarchist related propaganda
- Explosive residue, and components to manufacture additional IEDs
- Nine pyrotechnic smoke bombs
If convicted of the charges they face, the brothers could each serve 25 years in prison.
From Mainstream Media