MARTINSBURG, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A man has admitted to selling ghost guns in West Virginia.
According to U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld, Brandon Michael Reckert, 29, of Purcellville, Virginia, has admitted to possessing and selling privately-manufactured and unregistered firearms.
According to court documents, Reckert was advertising and selling the firearms on social media.
Reckert was found with a privately manufactured short-barreled AR-15 style rifle that wasn’t registered.
As a part of the plea agreement, Reckert will forfeit dozens of firearms, firearms parts, rounds of ammunition, and tools.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the West Virginia State Police; the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office; and the Loudon County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office investigated.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eleanor Hurney is prosecuting the case on behalf of the government.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Trumble presided.
