A Michigan man was sentenced to over six years in federal prison for weapons charges relating to machine guns and a short-barreled rifle.
The case against Wolf Harper, 37, of Lansing, began when an undercover agent was able to purchase a short-barreled rifle with a silencer, along with 74 machine gun conversion devices, according to U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Timothy VerHey. The conversion device specified would allow a semiautomatic firearm to fire as a fully automatic weapon, with up to 1,000 rounds of ammunition a minute.
Harper has now been sentenced to more than six years in prison for possession and transfer of machine guns and possession of a short-barreled rifle, U.S. attorneys said…