“Primarily, they deal in guns. They buy and sell guns, illicit guns. They're also the ones that know how to take and remove some parts and basically turn a pistol into a little mini machine gun. That's what we saw in Bloomington and Eden Prairie, you know, where all of those rounds were expanded.”

John Nagel · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Nagel described how Somali gangs traffic in illicit guns and modify pistols into automatic weapons, citing incidents in Bloomington and Eden Prairie.