New York Firefighter Busted for Guns

May 14, 2004
A city firefighter was busted yesterday after detectives found banned assault weapons inside his Queens home, police said.

A city firefighter was busted yesterday after detectives found banned assault weapons inside his Queens home, police said.

Jimmy Reilly, 36, a nearly 13-year FDNY veteran, turned himself in after learning that cops discovered the weapons while probing a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said.

According to police sources, Reilly became enraged during a fight with his live-in girlfriend on Sunday and threw furniture and an air conditioner out a window of their second-floor apartment in Rockaway Park.

The unlicensed weapons - an AR-15, an M-14 and an M-1 - were unloaded and Reilly had no ammo inside the home, cops said.

Reilly, assigned to Ladder 176 in Brooklyn, faces several charges, including weapons possession.

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