MN man who was building an arsenal of weapons to use against police pleads guilty to possessing machine gun
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River Smith, a 21-year-old man from Minnesota, pleaded guilty to possessing a machine gun. Smith told the FBI he was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against the police.
Smith was initially charged in December with possession of a machine gun — specifically devices to convert guns to fully automatic fire — and attempting to possess unregistered hand grenades. He paid an FBI informant $690 for four "auto sear" devices and three dummy grenades, prosecutors alleged at the time.
"Law enforcement took him down before he could execute his plan," federal prosecutor Manda Sertich said at a hearing in December, when a magistrate judge denied bail.
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