Abrams gets five years
Wow:
A Baltimore County gun dealer charged with illegally providing weapons to a man who died in a firefight with police last year received today a five-year suspended prison sentence and one year of probation.
Sanford M. Abrams entered an Alford plea in Baltimore County Circuit Court, in which he did not admit guilt but conceded that the state has enough evidence to convict him. The judge then entered a guilty plea for unlawfully selling a restricted firearm.
The plea marked the latest, and potentially the most serious, chapter in the long legal saga of Abrams, the former National Rifle Association national board member stripped of his license by federal agents nearly two years ago for failing to keep track of hundreds of weapons in his shop’s inventory.
Past coverage here.
January 14th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Maybe they didn’t have as much a they said they did. Pretty light sentence.
I keep in mind that all of these gun laws are illegal and immoral, so its hard to get very worked up about a light sentence. I’m sure the defense bankrupted him and his family, as any federal charge against any of us would.