Flushing arsenal seized

It started out as a 9-1-1 call to police in Flushing reporting a man with a gun. The man in fact had enough guns for a small army.
Officers from the 109th Precinct arrived at the house at 141-04 Laburnum Avenue shortly after 11 p.m. on Monday, August 6, to find a 31-year-old Asian woman, waiting outside. Police said she was the caller and she complained that her brother had pointed a gun at her.
Police located Leos Tseng, 29 in a second floor apartment and after a brief struggle, placed him under arrest.
Tseng was believed to be distraught due to a fight with his estranged wife before he allegedly threatened his sister, according to published reports.
Deputy Inspector Matthew Whelan, 109th Commanding Officer, said “When they [the officers] stepped inside the doorway, they found approximately 14 handguns laid out in plain view on the defendant’s bed.”
After a further search, cops found a sizeable arsenal, including a total of 46 handguns, 12 rifles, a shotgun, 7 silencers, a large amount of various sized firearm cartridges, a compound bow and arrows, swords, daggers and other bladed weapons.
Several of the rifles were of military style and police say that two were capable of fully automatic fire.
Among the cache of ammunition were numerous orange-tipped incendiary “tracer” cartridges.
Authorities say that silencers are illegal in all 50 states, and are of no use for sport or competition shooting. It is a felony to possess a silencer in New York State.
Tseng will be charged with multiple counts of possessing a firearm as well as assault and resisting arrest.
According to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, Tseng was arrested in 2004 for robbery and assault and only convicted of petty larceny in that case and given a conditional discharge.