While he fights his sentence, a North Florida gun dealer faces almost 12 years in prison for selling more than 100 guns that were apparently among thousands that criminals illegally shipped overseas.
Melrose resident Matthew Easton, 35, pleaded guilty in January to gun trafficking and acknowledged that as a licensed dealer he understood a 21-year-old man paying cash for dozens of weapons at a time didn’t really plan to own them himself, as the law required.
Easton’s buyer was a middleman moving firearms to another middleman who, according to a lawyer’s court filing, provided guns to an illegal immigrant wanted by Interpol who admitted in court papers to smuggling firearms to the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico in 2023 and 2024…