New York Daily News

Guilty plea in Queens gun buy

- BY NOAH GOLDBERG

An avowed white supremacis­t pleaded guilty to illegally purchasing guns in preparatio­n for a “racial holy war,” federal prosecutor­s said Friday.

Joseph Miner, 30, was arrested in May right after he and and a buddy bought a cache of weapons from an undercover federal agent in a hotel room in Bayside, Queens.

Federal authoritie­s nabbed the pair as they left with their newly acquired gun stash.

Miner not only went on racist and anti-Semitic rants on social media, but suggested a sexually frustrated past as well, prosecutor­s said.

“Go on a spree after my enemies til the authoritie­s take me out ... Sometimes I’ve considered forming a well trained incel hit squad,” he wrote, according to federal prosecutor­s.

“Incel” is online shorthand for “involuntar­y celibate.”

According to authoritie­s, Miner had an Instagram account under the username “Soldjagoy,” an apparent reference to rapper Soulja Boy with a twist, using the Yiddish word “goy,” which means non-Jewish.

“Miner stated that he hoped for the onset of ‘RaHoWa,’ or racial holy war, and contemplat­ed moving to Texas where he can ‘own [his] guns’ without having to ‘beg police judge and detective for permission... Just for a pistol. Beg on your knees like a b—-h,’” the feds wrote in court papers in May, pulling from Miner’s social media accounts.

But his hatred was applied.

“God I hate women jews and n——-s,” he declared on his account, where he often posted photos of himself doing a Nazi salute, federal prosecutor­s said.

He also celebrated the 2017 white supremacis­t Charlottes­ville rally and praised the stunning anti-Semitic Chanukah knife attack in December 2019 in Monsey that killed one elderly man, prosecutor­s said.

“Ngl [not going to lie] this is pretty f—-ing exciting,” Miner posted in response to a photo of the bloody rampage, according to prosecutor­s.

Miner pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm with obliterate­d serial numbers, but the feds said in May he bought not only the semi-automatic pistol, but also an AR-15 style gun from the undercover.

The Benjamin Cardozo High School graduate and former track runner at Queens College faces a maximum of five years in prison when he’s sentenced. broadly

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