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Mississippi Man Sentenced After Feds Find Him Using 3D-Printers To Make Machine Guns

A Jackson man was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and engaging in business as a manufacturer of firearms.
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A Jackson, Mississippi, man was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and engaging in business as a manufacturer of firearms.

According to court documents, Kent Edward Newhouse, 41, possessed firearms on or about July 13, 2022, and July 20, 2022, and engaged in the business of manufacturing firearms from April to July 2022. 

Investigators say in April 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives discovered through a confidential informant that Newhouse was using 3D printers to manufacture auto-sears, which are firearm components designed to cause semi-automatic firearms to function as fully automatic machine guns. 

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Under federal law, auto-sears are themselves machine guns. 

On July 13, 2022, Newhouse sold a confidential informant a firearm and several auto-sears.  Then on July 20, 2022, a search warrant was executed at Newhouse’s residence, where additional firearms and auto-sears were located. 

The government also obtained videos of Newhouse operating fully functional machine guns. 

Newhouse was previously convicted of felony sale of controlled substances in Madison County in 2009.

Newhouse pled guilty on September 1, 2022, to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of engaging in business as a manufacturer of firearms. 

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Jackson Police Department investigated the case.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Bert Carraway and Andrew W. Eichner prosecuted the case.

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