Thursday, October 14, 2021 

(Washington, DC) – 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, October 4, 2021, through Monday, October 11, 2021, 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:

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

• A Springfield Armory XD-40 .40 caliber handgun was recovered in the 3900 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue, Southwest. The following person was arrested: 33-year-old Austin Franklin Wooten, Jr., of Southwest, D.C., for Carrying a Pistol without a License, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, Possession of Unregistered Ammunition, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, and Possession of a Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device. CCN: 21-144-360

• A Smith & Wesson MP Shield 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the 5300 block of Wisconsin Avenue, Northwest. CCN: 21-143-419

• A Glock 19 9mm caliber handgun was recovered in the Interstate 695 Northbound, Northeast. CCN: 21-143-623

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

• A Ruger GP100 .357 caliber revolver was recovered in the 3000 block of Stanton Road, Southeast. CCN: 21-144-448

• A Glock 43 9mm caliber handgun and a Sig Sauer 9mm caliber handgun(both pictured below) were recovered in the 900 block of Maine Avenue, Southwest. CCN: 21-144-496