L.I. Sporting Goods Store Selling “Assault Weapons”

[MaverickNH]

L.I. sporting goods store owner sold illegal assault weapons, including rifle used in murder-suicide: prosecutors

Chester Pergran, 53, the owner of Chester’s Hunting & Fishing, had 116 illegal assault weapons, more than 80 illegal gravity knives and 820 high-capacity magazines when police raided his Ronkonkoma store in Nov. 2018.

www.nydailynews.com

“Chester Pergan, 53, the owner of Chester’s Hunting & Fishing, had 116 illegal assault weapons, more than 80 illegal gravity knives and 820 high-capacity magazines when police raided his Ronkonkoma store in Nov. 2018.”

A bunch of news articles on this 11/2018 case just appearing. It sounds like the owner was in compliance with federal law but not NY state laws. He sold a rifle used in a murder-suicide 6mo later - not like a “waiting period” would have made a difference...

The owner gave up his NY gun dealer license in 2015 and it only took years for NY to “raid” his store.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Ronkonkoma? Isn't that Mad Max's last name.

He also had several lower receivers — which contain a weapon’s moving parts — without serial numbers. The parts could be used to build homemade, untraceable “ghost guns,” Sini said.

Lower receivers are legal to possess — though state lawmakers are working on bills to ban ghost guns in New York.

Soooooo. . . . . . . gun parts. He also had enough gasoline in the tank of his vehicle to burn down a school.

Now. as much as I tout stats that say that suicide by gun COULD be reduced by reducing guns (because suicide is often a crime of passion and without an easy motive, many folks just fall asleep), this guy bought the gun MONTHS before he pulled this crap. Gun. Drive off of a bridge. Burn themselves up. He was gonna die. Making it somehow the gun shop guy's fault is lame.

Lastly - how was he a gun shop WITHOUT a NY license??? Or was this like the Army-o-Rama store in Commando???? Poorly written article.

 

[308rifleman]

That "gravity knife" law got overturned by Cuomo last year. Tens of thousands of people were being arrested for possessing/carrying common lock-blade knives that could be opened with a wrist flick (centrifugal force), which made them illegal under NY law. That was perhaps the one smart thing that Cuomo ever did!

 

[seanc]

The arrival is so badly written, I am having issues understanding what actually happened.
was he selling unserialized 80% lowers? Or maybe selling complete stripped frames? Maybe NY does not consider these as firearms but the press calls them evil black assault rifles?

and if he did not have a state license would not any gun sold through the store have been an illegal sale?

 

[MAGA99]

It’s NY