Two Vicksburg convicted felons were arrested at their home Wednesday after police found nine weapons, including an antitank rocket launcher, officials said.

Vicksburg police initially visited the 308 Grange Hall Road home shared by Austin Chance Reid, 25, and Damon Louis White, 28, while investigating a report of counterfeit money passed Tuesday at Kangaroo Express, 4888 U.S. 61 South.

The two were taken from the home, charged with possession of counterfeit instruments and nine counts each of possession of a weapon as a felon.

As police questioned the two men, “we were granted permission to search,” said Lt. Bobby Stewart, chief of investigations. The rocket launcher was found in a bedroom.

Seized were an M72 A3 antitank rocket launcher, three sawed-off shotguns, a .22-caliber Browning handgun with a silencer, a .45-caliber Springfield armory handgun, three knives, an 1856 Enfield black powder six-shot revolver and $2,300 in fake money, Stewart said.

The shotguns and silencer are illegal items, but the other weapons may lawfully be owned by non-felons.

“You can buy the (rocket launcher) at a gun show. That model has been replaced in the military,” Stewart said. “It’s not against the law to have them.”

It was not known why the two had the launcher. Stewart said it had been used, but he did not know if it was by the suspects. They would have to go through a military source to obtain ammunition, Stewart said.

The Enfield was “one of the first revolvers ever made,” Stewart said.

Stewart said a white 2000 Ford Expedition identified as being involved in passing a counterfeit bill at the store matched a vehicle owned by Reid’s wife.

City and county investigations were continuing, and federal authorities may become involved.

Records show Reid was on probation for federal charges. In 2008, he had been charged with auto theft and grand larceny in Warren County but was not prosecuted in light of pending federal charges that sent him to the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas.

White was convicted in Warren County of grand larceny last month and sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years on probation.

In 2000, he was convicted of two counts of grand larceny and possession of a weapon by a felon. He was convicted in 1999 on grand larceny, records show.

Both were being held at the Warren County Jail today with no bond set.