A 19-year-old Ann Arbor man is facing a charge of illegal possession of a machine gun after federal authorities discovered social media posts, one of which was possibly linked to a shooting in Detroit.
According to a federal criminal complaint, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives obtained records from Homeland Security Investigations in December 2025 for a website that was identified for alleged unlawful trafficking of National Firearms Act weapons, specifically machine gun conversion devices. Investigators found a purchase order of suspected machine gun conversion devices shipped to an address in Ann Arbor that was later linked to the suspect.
During that time, authorities were investigating a shooting in the 8200 block of Roselawn Street in Detroit, according to the complaint. A woman reported being grazed in the shooting and that her home had been struck a few weeks prior…