GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Greenville man was sentenced for straw purchasing over 90 firearms.
Kelsey Antonio McCallum, 32, was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for straw purchasing guns that were bought in South Carolina and Georgia.
Evidence revealed that between March 2018 and June 2022, McCallum bought 93 firearms in 52 separate purchases from firearm dealers in South Carolina and Georgia. McCallum would indicate on the federal firearms sale forms that he was the actual buyer of the firearms, knowing that he intended to sell them to others. McCallum would then transport these firearms to Maryland to sell them to other people. Some of the guns were later discovered at crime scenes in Maryland and in other states. McCallum was convicted by a federal jury in 2024 after a two-day trial…