The State - News from Dec. 28, 1987
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U.S. Treasury agents suspect that a Placer County gun dealer and his wife are illegally manufacturing automatic weapons, according to documents filed in Sacramento federal court. A raid of Curtis and Joyce Debord’s home and machine shops in Foresthill turned up parts for M-60 and Thompson machine guns and Uzi, AK-47 and Browning automatic weapons, along with a rocket launcher and several assembled guns, a court affidavit said. However, no charges have been filed and the Debords claimed that the arms are non-firing replicas made for the movie industry. Curtis Debord said the raid was a “misunderstanding. The stuff is non-firing.” Debord applied for a machine-gun permit from the California Department of Justice in July, 1986, but the application was denied, the affidavit said.
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