MPD’s Weekly Firearm Recoveries: May 6 to May 13, 2024
Thursday, May 16, 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, May 6, 2024, through Monday, May 13, 2024, MPD detectives and officers recovered 45 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, May 6, 2024
A Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm caliber handgun (pictured below) was recovered in the 1800 block of West Virginia Avenue, Northeast. CCN: 24-068-087