Queens Cop Wannabe Found with Weapons and Ammo ‘Arsenal’

By Robert Farago

According to his mother, 43-year-old Queens resident Lee Bergman had a thing about cops, ever since he tried and failed to join the force. New York cops now have a thing about Bergman, after they tracked a shipment of “bogus police IDs” to Mr. Bergman’s apartment. “What they found inside was a lot more terrifying,” the New York Post breathlessly reports . . .

Police took Bergman into custody at his job at a light-manufacturing factory in Queens and brought him to the 100th Precinct station house, where he gave cops the code to a small safe, which contained five registered guns. But refused to divulge the combination for a larger safe, sources said.

Members of the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit were able to force the safe open, revealing most of his stockpile.

In total, police seized an AK-47, eight handguns, five shotguns, two hunting rifles and six flare guns, along with the AR-15 pistol version that was stolen from Pennsylvania, authorities said.

Not to mention 17,000 roads of unspecified ammo. Cops charged Bergman with a farrago of felonies, including criminal impersonation of a police officer, possession of forged instruments, various weapons and narcotics offenses and a bunch of misdemeanors.

Bergman refused …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns