Federal prosecutors are arguing jurors have the right to hear about the large stash of weapons and cash authorities seized from Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s Santa Monica, Calif., hideout when they finally tracked down the wanted alleged killer two years ago.

“The fact that Bulger had approximately 30 guns, many of which were loaded, and $822,000 in cash squirrelled away in hand-cut holes in the walls of his apartment is strong intrinsic evidence of his determined flight from justice, his intent not to be captured without a fight and, thus, his consciousness of guilt with respect to the crimes with which he is charged,” said prosecutors for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston in court filings this week.

Bulger’s defense attorneys had been seeking to bar prosecutors from telling the jury about the guns, ammunition and cash stuffed into the walls of Bulger’s hideout. Investigators also seized from the apartment fake identifications for Bulger and his moll, Catherine Greig, and books on how to make phony identifications and find missing persons, according to prosecutors.

Federal prosecutors this week said they want Judge Denise J. Casper to allow the jury to hear about the evidence found in the Santa Monica apartment to refute the defense’s “misimpression” that Bulger never possessed guns. Bulger’s attorneys had previously pressed two state police officers to admit on the witness stand that they never found guns in Bulger’s possession or with his fingerprints, according to the court papers filed by prosecutors.

Casper has yet to rule on Bulger’s attoneys’ request to exclude the evidence.

Prosecutors also say they will use the guns and cash found in Bulger’s Santa Monica home as evidence of the gangster’s racketeering enterprise.

Bulger and Greig were arrested in Santa Monica in June 2011 after 16 years on the run. The federal case against Bulger began last month. He is charged with 19 counts of murder, as well as racketeering, extortion and money laundering.