Newswatch: Gun store admits violating law
(Published Feb. 12, 2000)
Sacramento
An Auburn Boulevard gun store pleaded guilty Friday in Sacramento federal court to possession of illegal semiautomatic assault weapons.
The plea was entered on behalf of Great Guns by one of its attorneys, Richard Pachter. Sentencing was set for April 28.
The company faces a
maximum fine of $500,000; the company's federal firearms licence will become invalid 60 days after sentencing.
Charges against the store's owner, Sterling G. Fligge, previously were dismissed.
Pachter admitted that
the store displayed two .22-caliber Ruger semiautomatic rifles that had been converted to assault weapons with detachable magazines, pistol grips and folding stocks.
Rifles in that configuration are more easily concealed and fired from the hip.
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