HACKENSACK — A Saddle Brook man found with more than 300 pounds of gunpowder and 195 firearms in his township home after his wife stabbed him over the summer was indicted Tuesday on weapons charges, authorities said.



Robert J. Lintner, 65, was charged in a 10-count indictment with having five illegal assault rifles and 65 outlawed high-capacity ammunition magazines, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said in a statement. Authorities said three of the seized rifles were submachine guns.



The seized weapons included a Sten 9mm machine gun, an Auto Ordnance Corp. Thompson submachine gun and a US Carbine M1 short assault rifle, according to the indictment.



Bergen County Police Department bomb technicians removed the hundreds of pounds of black and smokeless gunpowder from Lintner's Washington Street home in August, the prosecutor said. The legal limit of black gunpowder that can be stored residentially is 50 pounds and 100 pounds for the smokeless variety.



Lintner "did recklessly create a risk of widespread injury or damage by recklessly handling or storing hazardous materials in violation of a law, rule or regulation intended to protect the public health and safety," the indictment said.



Officers responded to Lintner's home after his wife, Eileen, stabbed him during a domestic dispute, according to police. Eileen Lintner was charged with aggravated assault and weapons possession in the attack.



Police were following standard protocol in domestic violence cases by securing any weapons in the home, Chief Robert Kugler said at the time.



Robert Lintner, however, refused to open his large gun vaults for police, prompting firefighters to crack open the safes using the Jaws of Life tool, Kugler said.



Township police, the bomb squad and county sheriff's office worked for about two days to remove the weapons and gunpowder from the house. Police hauled away garbage cans full of long guns, filling two pickup trucks with the seized items.



Neighbors have described Lintner as a gun collector, but authorities have not detailed why he allegedly had the weapons cache.

At a municipal court hearing in August, defense attorney Louis Nappen accused police of violating his client's Fourth Amendment by searching the home and described him as a victim, The Record reported.



The indictment handed up in Hackensack charges Lintner with causing or risking widespread injury or damage, three counts of unlawful possession of a machine gun, five counts of unlawful possession of an assault firearm and possession of large capacity magazines.

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