Teenager pleads guilty after police confiscate machine guns, ghost guns

An 18-year-old man has pleaded guilty to owning a machine gun after an investigation at a St. Paul home in March recovered a cache of illegally possessed weapons, including a ghost gun.

The teenager was 17 years old when Ramsey County authorities found the “ghost guns, automatic machine guns, multiple extended magazines and enough ammunitions for multiple drive-by shootings.”

According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a “ghost gun” refers to a firearm that has been assembled or completed by someone other than a licensed manufacturer. They do not have a serial number, which often makes them difficult to track…

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