ST. PAUL, M.N. (KELO.com) – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Amiir Mawlid Ali, of Minneapolis, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for one count of unlawful possession of a machine gun. Ali was previously found guilty on April 16, 2026, by a federal jury trial.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on June 3, 2025, Minneapolis Police Department Officers executed a traffic stop on a silver sedan due to multiple traffic violations. The car had three occupants, including the defendant who was in the front passenger seat. When officers removed Ali from the vehicle to conduct a safety sweep, Ali attempted to flee but officers apprehended him before he could escape.
Officers found a firearm equipped with a machine-gun conversion device under Ali’s seat during the safety sweep. The backseat squad car video shown at trial shows Ali instructing the other occupants to deny knowledge of the machine gun of which was found to have Ali’s DNA on it. Officers learned the same day that the firearm had been reported stolen. An expert at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosive examined the firearm and established that it was able to fire multiple rounds of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger, making it operate as a machine gun…