Judge Releases Teen Who Emptied AR-15 in Neighborhood as ‘Not a Danger’

The 18-year-old sprayed more than two dozen rounds from a semiautomatic rife a mile from the US Capitol.

Kyle, a private security professional, carries an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle as personal protection before entering a known "hot spot" for human trafficking in the Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

A Washington D.C. judge is under fire by federal prosecutors as well as the country’s largest gun lobby for releasing an 18-year-old gunman with only an ankle monitor.

Earlier this month, Amonte Moody was arrested on allegations that he sprayed a neighborhood just a mile from the U.S. Capitol with more than two dozen rounds of ammunition using an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Metropolitan D.C. police records.