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Related: About this forumFeds: Mentally ill man had stash of 18 guns, fake police badges in Melvindale home
(Detroit Free Press) More than a decade ago, Saliah Algahmi was ordered hospitalized for mental health issues, deemed a threat to himself and others, court records show.
Because of that, the government says, he wasn't allowed to possess guns.
But following a domestic violence incident 11 years later, police raided his home this month and discovered a cache of weapons: 18 in total, including a machine gun, semiautomatic rifles and a stolen AK-47 pistol. They also found two counterfeit police badges, one of them a shiny gold Department of Defense knockoff.
Federal charges followed.
In U.S. District Court last week, 37-year-old Algahmi, of Melvindale, consented to being jailed pending the outcome of a case that highlights a pervasive problem in the United States: guns winding up in the wrong hands. ..............(more)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/07/04/mental-illness-guns-phony-law-enforcement-badges/70374833007/
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Feds: Mentally ill man had stash of 18 guns, fake police badges in Melvindale home (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2023
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Confused gun-humper: A man able to resist temptation while unable to resist temptation
bucolic_frolic
Jul 2023
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ret5hd
(20,576 posts)1. Well shit...
how am I going to use all those saved-up thoughts and prayers now?
Maybe someone else will randomly pop up in the near future.
jimfields33
(16,201 posts)3. I think it's BS he going to a hospital and not prison
Another gun lover gets special treatment. That needs to stop.
bucolic_frolic
(43,578 posts)2. Confused gun-humper: A man able to resist temptation while unable to resist temptation
time bomb defused