Friday, August 9, 2024

Every day, the Metropolitan Police Department works to investigate and recover illegal firearms in Washington D.C. through intelligence-based policing to identify, interdict, and interrupt armed violent offenders within the District. In addition to our patrol officers, members from several of MPD’s specialized units work tirelessly to safely and respectfully secure illegal firearms and get them off our streets. From Monday, July 29, 2024, through Monday, August 5, 2024, MPD detectives and officers recovered 46 firearms in the District of Columbia.

Note: This is not a comprehensive list of all guns recovered in the District of Columbia.

Among the firearms recovered were:

Monday, July 29, 2024

• A Hi-Point 4595 .45 caliber rifle was recovered in the 900 block of Barnaby Street, Southeast. CCN: 24-115-963

• A Winchester SXP .163 caliber shotgun was recovered in the Unit block of K Street, Northwest. CCN: 24-116-112

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

• A Century Arms Canik SPX Rival 9mm caliber handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 400 block of New York Avenue, Northeast. CCN: 24-116-771

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