Feds: Mentally ill man had stash of 18 guns, fake police badges in Melvindale home

[marmar]

(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/

[ret5hd]

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]

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]

2. Confused gun-humper: A man able to resist temptation while unable to resist temptation

time bomb defused