First they came for the guns. Now they come for the fake guns.
While the cops are real, most of these guns are not
When they’re not breaking up Hasidic Jewish funerals or arresting people for not social distancing, apparently the NYPD is going after people with replica firearms used as props in music videos.
Queens Woman Facing Charges For Prop Gun Collection
A Forest Hills woman is facing gun charges after New York Police Department (NYPD) officers raided her home last December and found 22 prop guns.
The incident occurred on Dec. 28, 2019 when police acted on a tip and executed a search warrant at the home of 31-year-old Elizaveta Zlatkis on 67th Road in Forest Hills, QNS reported.
Zlatkis was arrested and charged with four counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17 because her children were in the home at the time of the raid.
She’s also facing eight misdemeanor counts of violating local laws related to ammunition, the Queens Eagle reported.
Police celebrated the operation with a social media post that included a picture of the officers who seized the guns standing around a table displaying the fake weapons.
“Great job yesterday from our Field Intelligence Officer and Special Operations Unit for a successful search warrant taking multiple guns off the streets of Forest Hills,” NYPD’s 112th Precinct tweeted.
But what NYPD failed to highlight in their tweet was the fact that 21 of the 22 “guns” that had been confiscated were airsoft rifles, starter pistols, or toy replicas, the Queens Eagle reported.
The one real “gun” seized by police had been rendered inoperable and was missing its trigger, handgrip, and some internal components.
It turned out that Zlatkis and her husband, Elvis Selimi, loan and rent the fake guns to production companies for use in music videos, the Queens Eagle reported.
“We do videos with them as props,” Rosedale rapper Crucial explained. “I didn’t know you could actually get in trouble with all that. That’s wild. They’re fake.”
Zlatkis appeared in the background of at least one music video by artist Tay Spades and has made friends in the industry, according to the Queens Eagle.
She spent one night in jail after her arrest and was released by the judge on her own recognizance the next day.
Her attorney, Joe Murray, said the judge recognized the absurdity of the charges, the Queens Eagle reported.
“Not a single gun was real,” Murray said. “I want to clear her name. She’s not a gangster.”
NYPD has admitted the guns weren’t operable, the Queens Eagle reported.
“Firearms were recovered on Friday, December 27, 2019 in regard to a search warrant and deemed inoperable at a later date,” NYPD Detective Denise Moroney said.
But despite the fact the “guns” seized weren’t actual, operable lethal weapons, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz has refused to drop the case, the Forest Hills Patch reported.
Murray said Zlatkis has refused to accept a plea deal.
A spokesperson for Katz’s office refused to say whether the district attorney was considering dropping the charges and told the Forest Hills Patch that they didn’t comment on pending cases.
She’s facing four charges off 22 “firearms” confiscated during the warrant. That leads me to believe that only four of them met some definition of a firearm in NYC. I’ve been told that pellet guns are illegal weapons in NYC. The latest crime stats show a 95% increase in first 11 months of 2020 compared to the same time last year. This seizure will surely make a dent in that, right?
Source; Police Tribune
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Gun Grabbing Fascists, Police
You have to have a permit for a BB or pellet gun in NYC. Not sure about Queens. The permit is to ensure you don’t go all crazy with your freedoms.
Too bad the NYPD does not put this kind of effort into investigating and arresting looters, arsonists and violent criminals in the mostly peaceful protests.
Apparently, the DA is pissed this woman beat her to the business model and she wants a shortcut to the props for her own business.
I’m betting we will not see such raids on the big name theater and production companies in NYC.
Yup, laws for thee but not for me.
“I’m betting we will not see such raids on the big name theater and production companies in NYC.”
That goes to show what happens when you have the money and connections to bribe the right people in a liberal dump like NYC!
She will be prosecuted because the authorities look stupid for a raid on toyland. So they insist “weapons” and prosecute, and thus pretend they were not stupidly stupid stupids.
Fake guns, used by fake “gangstas”, used to make alleged entertainment. Do they bust the actors in police dramas and movies filmed in NYC? No? Because racism, or no bribes?
Real crime? Made idiots obvious.
One of the guns on display looks just like the break barrel 1250fps pellet gun I bought my son for his 13th birthday. We were just using it yesterday to sight in his new Christmas scope.
I guess I’m going to have to call my wife at work and tell her the bad news of how she has raised a hardened criminal and is in conspiracy to contribute to the delinquency of a minor.
Oh, whatever shall we do? What will the neighbors think?
Molon Labe…BITCHES! Better bring some SCUBA Gear. That quicksand filled lake is deep and dark.
We did have a similar problem a few years back. We were doing an after hours history program at a school (a court room scene). Had a prop, inoperative shotgun, that got left behind, inadvertently. One of the snowflake teachers almost had kittens and, literally, wanted to make a federal case out it. Fortunately for us (me), cooler heads prevailed.
1980, my high school music department was performing “Annie Get Your Gun”. So, to accurately portray the shooting contest between Annie and Frank Butler, several of us supplied our shotguns as props. One of our cast members loaded up some 12 gauge rounds with only a primer, and the show was a success. Imagine that happening now.
That would sprain brains today
Once again proving that those tasked with enforcement often don’t know what they’re actually enforcing…
How do you not know these are replicas?
If you know they’re replicas and you arrest anyway you’re nothing more than a fucking stooge “following orders”…think about that for a moment, because it doesn’t place in very good company historically speaking.
If you didn’t know they were replicas and you posed photos you’re perhaps not bright enough for the position you hold.
There’s no positive aspect of this arrest at all…”acting on a tip” translated to mean some pissed off neighbor who knew more about your business than they ought to…
Which is why I trust very few people to enter into my home…my business isn’t their business typically.
To clarify, I understand that not knowing in a split second is perfectly understandable…not knowing while you pick it up and tag it as evidence while looking it over….yeah…a different reality.
These cops absolutely knew these were props or airguns and absolutely knew this was BS before they conducted the raid.
This was done because, “bruh, muh authoritay”
NYC and all the near burbs are so corrupted that this is considered legitimate.
To paraphrase Rage Against the Machine, Some of those who serve in forces are the same who burn the constitution.
Commissar Dumkopf probably knows a few of these tyrants and thinks this sort of fascistic BS is somehow “fighting fascism”.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms according to the ATF, basically anything that can launch a projectile or is easily modifiable to do the same is considered a firearm. Good luck finding a single comprehensible definition.
there is a single and comprehensible definition of a firearm. The ATFE is just full of Cartmans.
NYC going to do anything about the homicide rate and youths smashing occupied BMW SUV windshields?
Maybe the rampant harassment and abuse, even assaults against their officers?
The revolving door of local DAs?
Shutting down businesses, churches by illegal orders and government diktats.
These fellas are going to have to pick a side, liberty or naw, lest one be given to ‘em.
Dicks.
Again Mason does not let facts get away with his propaganda.
First, Atlanta did not defund the police…
It is a phrase, not a policy.
It is about reducing the role of the police by using other professionals to handle mental health, homelessness, and drug addiction,
And Atlanta voted the proposal down.
So they didn’t even do that. There were no police layoffs, no pay cuts, and no diversion of funds to other programs. At his despite a budget shortfall due to reduced revenue from a Covid.
Crime rose nationwide, on average due to increased unemployment, and fewer economic opportunity.
It rose in towns and cities with no defund movements whatsoever.
And before some dipshit links a town where crime did not rise….crime rose nationwide “ON AVERAGE”.
Damnit this was the wrong thread.
It’s liberal lunacy in any thread. You need to unfuck your local cesspool before you pontificate on others. Fraud.
*snerk* this seems oddly appropriate and I feel icky even sullying old John Belushi in this manner…
Followed by:
You forgot to mention the release of thousands of criminals from the nations jails. I suppose that had something to do with elevated crime occurrences.
Just like Antifa is an “idea” not an “organization”?
Right…
Amazing some of these “ideas” have their own facebook pages such as Portland’s Rose City Antifa (23k+ followers) which has pinned on it’s page the following warning for it’s members to be discrete when planning criminal activity:
“DO NOT discuss criminal activity or make any action plans on our Facebook wall. You should never make plans with a stranger on Facebook to do this work. Even trying to sort out ride shares, or similar is very unsafe on here. Undoubtedly enemies will fish around with posts of that nature so be wary,””
There another page on Al Gore’s interweb invention “itsgoingdown (dot) org” catering to antifascist groups as a “digital community center from anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements”
Hey dipshit, people with sociology degrees aren’t exactly running out to take those “ride-a-longs” with the police when they go out on a mental case.
Perhaps you can use your degree from Berzerkley and take up the slack?
I thought not.
Defund the police may a phrase to you but who are you? Nobody really. To BLM and many others it is actual policy. Unless you just happen to be one of the communists running BLM and have been holding out on us your interpretation means absolutely nothing.
Why does the economic situation brought on by the Kung Flu get a pass, when most of the shut downs were supposedly for our own good. People truly in need are too busy trying to make ends meet to be out jackassing with other people. Economic downturn do not equate to crime wave in my book, but somehow idle hands are excused for criminal behaviour.
I personally have not been effected yet, and make steps to ensure my financial well being, everyone else should be doing so as well.
Criminal actions should not get a pass, take care of your business, and keep your hand off other folk stuff.
“Field Intelligence”. They may want to consider renaming that unit.
Field Stupidity?
Next up, they are planning a massive raid on the local trade schools to seize the ghost soldering guns. Hard to believe that you can walk into any hardware store and buy as many as them that you want without undergoing a background check.
There’s a reason my family moved out to Suffolk County in the ’50s.
So, if I have a pic of some exotic automachine, can they arrest me for not insuring that automachine? Or the kiddies toy trucks?? Oh, man, I saw a kid on a bicycle the other day with NO LICENSE PLATE! He gonna be in trouble?
If the bicycle is operated in a commercial enterprise, kinda…
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/commercial-cyclists.shtml
Was the little criminal wearing a helmet?
Helmet, but no mask, so still in trouble…
Two things stand out to me (Even with all the rest of the nonsense in this story );1. “ and one count of acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17 because her children were in the home at the time of the raid.” I don’t see how the police raiding her residence (for nonsense) is her placing her kids
In danger.
2. “ Murray said Zlatkis has refused to accept a plea deal.” why the hell would she accept a plea deal?
I understand that there are some silly laws and the process has to be followed, but at some point, common sense has to take over!
Didn’t you know? The Commissar Dumkopfs endanger your life and your children’s lives and charge you with a crime for their actions.
No, it’s not violating your civil rights–it’s the natural application of “muh authoitay”.
Obey, peasant. The Pipsqueeking Pissants are here!
Unfortunately, your jest seems to be the current state of affairs.
Injurious to a child under 17? I was taught to shoot real bullets at 8 years old, shortly after the 67 riots began in Detroit. For the record, I was also taught firearms safety. These people are out of their friggin minds.
I got a .22 for my 12th birthday. The very same one my dad got for his 12th. Apparently, we’re a family of felons.
I still have the pre-1950 (no serial number) Stevens .22/410 “over and under” I got at 14.
When I lived in Queens, nyc, to get my Daisey Mod. 25 pump BB gun, I had to go over the County line into Nassau County NYS and when I moved over the line, I bought an H&K 91 and 93 a few blocks from where I worked on 66 Murray street, Manhattan but did not need the required nyc rifle/shotgun permit since I wasn’t a nyc resident. I did need the permit for work because we used shotguns on the trucks.Have a Happy New Year all you Gals and guys out there and see you next year with more fun and puns.
2019 article. Still shaking my head over it…
Why does the economic situation brought on by the Kung Flu get a pass, when most of the shut downs were supposedly for our own good. People truly in need are too busy trying to make ends meet to be out jackassing with other people. Economic downturn do not equate to crime wave in my book, but somehow idle hands are excused for criminal behaviour.
I personally have not been effected yet, and make steps to ensure my financial well being, everyone else should be doing so as well.
Criminal actions should not get a pass, take care of your business, and keep your hand off other folk stuff.