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 A display of some of the weapons for sale in Garfield.
 Steven Licata talking to CBS 2's Cheryl Fiandaca.
Video  Deadly weapons for sale on a Garfield, N.J., street, Cheryl Fiandaca investigates.Related Stories Weapons For Sale
NEW YORK (CBS) A CBS 2 investigation has uncovered some of the deadliest weapons imaginable on sale for anyone to buy inside a home in a local neighborhood. CBS 2's Cheryl Fiandaca investigates. They are deadly weapons and advertised that way on the Internet. Swords, sickles, axes and flails, the weapons of war from another time. But they are being manufactured and sold today, on a tree lined residential street in Garfield, New Jersey and the neighbors are not happy. Is this stuff sharp? .Yes, that's the way my client's like them.. They're weapons you might only expect to see in the movies. But on Steven Licata's web site you can see razor sharp medieval swords, rapiers, axes even flails. And Licata tells customers he manufactures and sells them right in a quiet residential neighborhood in Garfield; .I just work out of a shed out in back,. says Licata. When asked what his neighbors think, Licata says, .They have no complaints, you know I work Monday through Friday 9-5. It' s not like I'm doing it at night or on weekends. I'm not bothering them. They're working during the day anyway.. That's what Licata told our undercover photographer last month. While his two-year-old son, whom he calls his apprentice, played dangerously near the weapons. But, today he told CBS 2 Investigates a different story, and denied making or selling the weapons out of his home. .Are you running a business out of your house? asked Fiandaca. .No I'm not. I have an Internet business,. answered Licata. He was then asked if he was making weapons in the shed out back. .No,. was his reply. But Licata told a perspective client on our undercover video, he was doing both, .These two are each listed for $1,200 on my website but since you're here $800.. Here.s what some of the weapons are used for. Dueling at renaissance fairs. Other people consider the expensive pieces of art and collect them. Similar weapons are used in movies like Highlander. But with a school two blocks away, many residents say they don't want the business or it's clientele anywhere in the neighborhood. .That's very disturbing. Who's he selling them to. I mean I have teenage kids here in the high school, and stuff so they should really do something about that,. says one neighbor. .I hate it, it's awful,. says another. .That's terrible. He should be arrested. They should take these knives away from him,. says a third neighbor. The city of Garfield already tried to do that. But just last week a judge dismissed the case against Licata because he claimed he did not manufacture or sell the weapons out of his home. Today we spoke to the city manager, and now that could change. .This is absolutely prohibited. My understanding of it was different. We will not stand for it,. says Thomas Buch, Garfield city manager. Late Monday, the city building inspector issued new summonses to Licata and the owner of his apartment for prohibited use violations. Both are due in court on June 8th to answer the charges. (MMIV, CBS Broadcasting Inc., All Rights Reserved.) More Special Reports
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