Nov 09, 2010

3 ex-Marines accused of selling assault rifles to L.A. gang

06:31 PM

Three former U.S. Marines have been arrested for allegedly selling assault weapons to a Los Angeles gang and others, the Associated Press is reporting.

Federal officials said today that Adam Gitschlag of Orange County was the suspected ringleader and that he was arrested Nov. 2 at home. AP says that investigative documents it obtained state that he oversaw the sale of two cases of firearms, including an AK-47, two Russian and Romanian variants of the weapon and two other semiautomatic rifles.

One of the buyers allegedly was connected to the Florencia 13 gang.

Last week a Navy SEAL in San Diego and two others were charged with smuggling machine guns from Iraq to sell on the black market, AP writes.

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