HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — A 19-year-old Hudsonville man has pleaded guilty to possession and transfer of a machine gun, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan announced Wednesday.
In June, Ethan Carter gave another person a machine gun conversion device, according to a release from the attorney’s office. These devices turn semiautomatic guns into automatic weapons, allowing them to fire multiple shots with one pull of the trigger. When authorities searched Carter’s home weeks later, they found six more machine gun conversion devices and a Glock pistol with a conversion device installed, the release said.
Police: Hudsonville grad shot during robbery in Alabama
The indictment came just days after Carter, a Hudsonville High School graduate, was shot multiple times in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 12. Police said Carter, who was in Alabama for a sports training program, went to legally buy a gun he had found for sale online. Instead, police said, he was robbed and shot.
He spent days in the hospital in Alabama before returning to West Michigan…