Police officers in southern Blair County pull an assault rifle and bomb making equipment out of a storage shelter. WTAJ News was the only organization on scene while police were pulling out the evidence.

Police officers from Greenfield and Freedom Townships, along with State Police spent about six hours going through a storage unit at 99 Storage in Greenfield Township.

Around 10:00 Tuesday morning the owner was checking storage units that no one had returned paperwork on. So he cut the lock off a storage unit and he was shocked to find an assault rifle and everything you need to make a bomb inside. He immediately called the police and they started their investigation.

Police pulled out pipes, gunpowder and a lot of lighter fluid. At this point no charges have been filed against the 17 and 18 year old boys that owned all of that. And both boys will remain free until they are.

Chief Ronald Givler says they are consulting with the ATF to see what charges can be filed. It's more complicated because they had all the pieces to make a bomb, but didn't have an actual bomb.

But that's not a big comfort to neighbors. They say it’s scary to see that kind of thing happening in their small community. Chief Givler doesn't think the boys planned to hurt anyone. But what they were doing was dangerous and illegal, and it wasn't the first time. The boys had made and set off a pipe bomb in the past month in the township. Neighbors were even more shocked to hear that.

Givler says once the investigation is over they'll talk with the district attorney about filing charges.