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California authorities seize nearly 2 dozen guns, 35K rounds of ammunition from man's home

A man from California had nearly two dozen guns and 35,000 rounds of ammunition seized from his home. The man was not supposed to own guns due to a mental health ban.

Authorities seized nearly two dozen guns, silencers and some 35,000 rounds of ammunition at the Southern California home of a man who was forbidden to own weapons because of a mental health-related ban, it was announced Tuesday.

Agents from the California Department of Justice arrested the man on Jan. 25 at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Azusa, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced.

The man was under a "mental health-based prohibition" but was listed in the state's Armed Prohibited Persons System database as owning one firearm, according to a statement from the attorney general's office.

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The database identifies people who legally held firearms but were later banned from having them.

Authorities went to the man's home to seize the gun but he refused to let them in, the statement said.

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After getting a search warrant, agents entered and found "four machine guns, seven assault weapons, a short-barreled rifle, four suppressors/silencers, six handguns, one shotgun, four rifles, 54 lower receivers/frames, 41 standard capacity magazines, 87 large-capacity magazines, and approximately 35,000 rounds of miscellaneous ammunition," the statement said.

The statement didn't identify the man or why he was placed under a mental health-related weapons prohibition.

The man is charged with various crimes relating to unlawful possession of guns, silencers and ammunition, authorities said.

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