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Man admits weapons charge

PITTSBURGH, June 23 (UPI) -- A western Pennsylvania man has admitted selling firearms without a license, including an AK-47 sold to an undercover federal agent.

Morgan Jones, 65, of Lucinda is to be sentenced in October, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Jones was arrested last year after an investigation into illegal weapons sales and militias in the area.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Margaret Picking said at Monday's hearing that investigators discovered Jones would host "flamethrower parties," using a 50-caliber weapon loaded with an incendiary round and fired at a tire pumped full of oxyacetylene. Agents who searched his house in June 2008 found 93 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Jones's lawyer, Martin Dietz, said his client denied membership in a militia or harboring anti-government views, and the judge said nothing she had been given on the case suggested he has such views.

Jones faces 18 to 24 months in prison.

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