ST. LOUIS – A Maplewood man admitted to selling nine machine gun conversion devices to an undercover agent, arranging sales through an Instagram account.
Tanario Darden, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to felony charges of transporting prohibited weapons without a license and transferring machine guns.
An indictment alleges that Darden used his Instagram account to to offer machine gun conversion devices for sale. The devices – also known as MCDs, switches or auto sears – convert a semi-automatic firearm into fully automatic weapon. Because of that, MCDs are defined as a machine gun under federal law…