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Pensioner who posted himself guns from the United States avoids jail – The Irish News

A gun fanatic pensioner who imported from the US component parts for a potentially lethal AR15 assault rifle walked free from court on Friday after a judge suspended his prison sentence.

Imposing a ten month jail sentence on William McMullan but suspending it for a year “in the particular circumstances of this case,” Judge Geoffrey Miller KC highlighted how such assault rifles “had been used in many mass shootings in the US.”

Sentencing McMullan at Downpatrick Crown Court, the judge said “it is significant that no actions were taken by the police” to revoke the gun licence held by the 66-year-old and that if he had taken the proper, legal steps, he could have added the weaponry he imported to his certificate which only expired last month.

At an earlier hearing McMullan, from the Loughdoo Road in Newtownards, entered guilty pleas to a total of six counts of the fraudulent importation of various firearms on 15 October 2019.

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