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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Teen and grandfather arrested for running ghost gun workshop from garden shed

East Hampton Police

A teenager and his grandfather have been arrested for running a ghost gun operation out of the shed in their backyard, after police uncovered a stash of ghost gun AR-15 rifles including one that had been modified into a machine gun.

Clayton Hobby, 18, and Kerry Schunk, 64, were slapped with a string of firearm charges over the trove of illegal weapons, which the grandfather and grandson duo claimed they built to protect their own family.

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