A Watervliet man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for illegally manufacturing and selling firearms without a license, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Sean Patrick, 46, admitted to building and selling four non-serialized, semi-automatic pistols between June 2021 and November 2022 without the required federal license, paperwork, or tax payments.
Federal agents searched Patrick’s residence in November 2022 and found four additional “ghost guns,” another pistol with a removed serial number, gun kits, fabrication tools, and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition…