A U.S. Postal Service worker was arrested Wednesday after an early morning NYPD raid of his Brooklyn home uncovered six 3D-printed ghost guns, cops said.
Michael Gopaul, 40, was charged with multiple counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according to law enforcement.
Police executed the search warrant at Gopaul’s 83rd St. home near Fourth Ave. in Bay Ridge where he lives with his 8-year-old daughter around 6:30 a.m., police said.
The 3D-printed firearms — called ghost guns because they are unregistered and difficult to trace — were modeled after the Austrian-made Glock pistol, cops said
Of the six recovered ghost guns, Gopaul printed four of the weapons entirely himself, while he purchased roughly 80% of the parts for the other two firearms from a second party, said police.
The NYPD caught onto the postal worker’s cottage gun-manufacturing scheme about a year ago, after certain 3D-printing parts and supplies he bought online raised red flags at the department, according to law enforcement.
Police also recovered a standard Glock purchased legally out of state, five high-capacity magazines, 300 rounds of ammo and a 3D printer, cops said.
Following his arrest, Gopaul described himself to investigators as a gun buff, saying he enjoyed target shooting in Pennsylvania, according to police, who said he is not suspected of seeking to distribute the weapons.
Messages left seeking comment from USPS were not immediately returned.
