A Franklin man has been charged with manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license after ATF agents were able to buy multiple 'Ghost guns' from him in a months-long investigation.
According to court documents, in May 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began investigating Alexander Clark of Franklin for unlawfully manufacturing and selling privately made firearms.
Over the course of several months, agents purchased several 3-D printed Glock-style firearms and devices capable of converting semiautomatic rifles to fully automatic machineguns from Clark. According to court documents, during the search of Clark’s residence, law enforcement officers seized approximately 30 firearms including several 3-D printed firearms, several “Glock switches” used to convert firearms into machine guns, a suspected fully automatic AR-15 rifle, 3-D printing filament, a laptop with a Glock frame on screen connected to a 3-D printer and a silencer.
According to the U.S. District Court, Clark does not possess a Federal Firearms License authorizing him to sell firearms and he had not registered the weapons in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record as is required for this category of firearms.Ghost guns are unserialized, privately made firearms increasingly recovered by law enforcement at crime scenes across the country.
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