A 72-year-old man will face court over homemade guns and drugs found at Aldinga Beach home

An Aldinga Beach has been charged with several offences after police were led to property with homemade firearms.

A 72-year-old man will face court after a tip-off led police to a southern suburbs home where they found homemade guns, a machine used for making firearms and drugs.

On Thursday, officers from SA Police’s Serious Firearm Crime Investigation Section received information from Australian Border Force that illicit firearms were being manufactured at the property.

Police say officers went to an Aldinga Beach home about 10.30am and searched the property, where they found two firearms and machinery used to manufacture the firearms.

A 72-year-old man has been arrested., following homemade guns found at Aldinga Beach home. Picture: SA Police

A 72-year-old man has been arrested., following homemade guns found at Aldinga Beach home. Picture: SA Police

Officers also seized 12 cannabis plants, a huge amount of ammunition and a large industrial lathe – a machine that rotates materials to cut, sand, drill and more.

Following the search, police charged an Aldinga Beach man with numerous offences.

His charges include manufacturing a firearm without a licence, possessing a firearm without a licence, possessing ammunition without a licence and cultivating cannabis.

The man, 72, was bailed to appear in the Christies Beach Magistrates on January 2.

Detective Superintendent Lauren Leverington, officer-in-charge of the Firearms Branch, said the arrest was an “important seizure”.

“Privately made firearms are dangerous, untraceable and their existence in the community can pose a threat to public safety,” Ms Leverington said.