Federal operation nabs nearly 43,000 illegal gun silencers shipped from China

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Federal operation nabs nearly 43,000 illegal gun silencers shipped from China
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A federal operation underway since 2019 has seized tens of thousands of illegal gun silencers smuggled into the U.S. from China, leading to the arrests of felons and domestic extremists, authorities say.

, according to prosecutors. When agents searched the man’s house, they found several hidden compartments with an AR-15 style “ghost gun,” ammunition, a silencer and silencer parts. He was sentenced to more than two years in prison.

Years earlier, the younger Berger made a short-lived gun podcast called Alt-Right Armory full of ethnic slurs, conspiracy theories and “playful thoughts” about political violence. The men have been charged with possessing machine guns, unregistered firearms and unregistered silencers. Both have pleaded not guilty; Joseph P.

The people who are buying the silencers generally know they are breaking the law by buying them from a Chinese website and not registering them with ATF, Hammer said.

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