A North Hollywood guy has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an unlicensed gun broker by marketing 16 rifles and handguns — quite a few without having serial figures — as well as numerous add-ons, the U.S. Attorney’s Business office introduced Tuesday.
Arthur Muradyan, 32, will enter his plea to the federal demand of engaging in the company of dealing in firearms without having a license on a day to be decided.
Muradyan also agreed to plead guilty to distributing methamphetamine for providing practically a pound of the drug to an undercover operative, federal prosecutors claimed.
Muradyan “willfully supplied to, and did, market firearms, firearms equipment, and ammunition, such as: machine guns semiautomatic firearms with massive potential magazines firearms bearing no genuine manufacturer’s mark or serial quantity — frequently referred to as “ghost guns” and unregistered and unserialized limited-barreled rifles,” he admitted in his plea agreement.
Numerous of the guns experienced been trafficked from Las Vegas and offered to an informant operating with the Bureau of Alcoholic beverages, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives final calendar year.
Muradyan sold methamphetamine to the informant on the identical working day he also bought a semi-automatic 9mm handgun and a equipment gun conversion gadget typically referred to as a “Glock swap,” according to the plea arrangement filed in Los Angeles federal court.
At the time he pleads guilty, Muradyan will face a obligatory minimum of 10 several years in federal jail for the narcotics distribution offense, and up to 5 several years for the firearms-similar offense, prosecutors noted.
