Wareham police seize firearms, including two assault rifles

[Ian David]

Wareham police seize firearms, including two assault rifles

WAREHAM —

Wareham detectives confiscated several guns, including two assault rifles, stored by a Wareham man who wasn’t properly licensed during a search warrant’s execution at 14 Tomahawk Drive in the town’s Indian Mound Beach section Wednesday, Feb. 22.

Entry was made without incident, police said, and resident Brian Townley, 25, 14 Tomahawk Drive, was cooperative. He led detectives to a room in the house where several weapons and various ammunitions were located in a secured area. Police said rifles, including two assault-type rifles, two pistols, several rounds of ammunition, along with several magazine holders were located and secured.

Townley is due in court on March 20 to face charges of possession of a firearm without an FID card (six counts), possession of ammunition, possession of a large capacity feeding device (four counts), firearm possession with one prior violent crime conviction (juvenile offense).

More:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/wareham/newsnow/x1160486826/Wareham-police-seize-firearms-including-two-assault-rifles

[saras]

1. It's not clear why there was a warrant, but everything seems to have gone smoothly and legally

The police rhetoric seems rather OTT and inappropriate unless the guy was really suspected of supplying guns to local criminals, but there's no evidence of that, and no evidence the police believed it in reality rather than rhetoric. - they behaved quite reasonably also.

The guy had gone to the trouble of building a secured area for the guns, I wonder why no permits - unless the juvenile crime prevented him from getting them, or they're things you can't get permits for.