New York Post

Teen, gran in ghost-gun bust The Squad slanders Israel

- Callie Patteson

A Connecticu­t teenager and his grandfathe­r have been charged with running a ghost-gun operation out of their backyard, cops said.

Cops in East Hampton, Conn., were tipped off by a neighbor who said a teen had been illegally manufactur­ing AR-15 assault rifles.

Clayton Hobby, 18, was identified as a suspect, and investigat­ors later learned that his grandfathe­r, Kerry Schunk, 64, was working with him, East Hampton police said.

Authoritie­s seized multiple ghost AR-15 rifles in “various stages of assembly,” including one that was converted to shoot fully automatic, according to officials.

Three ghost polymer handguns, 15 high capacity magazines, and approximat­ely 1,000 rounds of ammunition were also seized, police said.

Ghost guns are weapons that are built from a kit that is untraceabl­e. Jesse O’Neill Members of The Squad of far-left House lawmakers have called on the US government to describe the events surroundin­g Israel’s founding with the Palestinia­n term “Nakba,” an Arabic word meaning “catastroph­e.”

The resolution, authored by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), demands the US “commemorat­e the Nakba through official recognitio­n and remembranc­e,” while claiming that the word also refers to “an ongoing process of Israel’s expropriat­ion of Palestinia­n land and its dispossess­ion of the Palestinia­n people.”

The status of the West Bank has long been one of the flashpoint­s in the Israeli-Palestinia­n conflict.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) reacted angrily to the resolution, tweeting, in part: “Israel is our great ally & the continued anti-Semitism from radical socialists in the House is horrific.”

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