KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A 24-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court for possessing and transferring three machine gun conversion devices.

Demetrius Harris, also known as “Meech,” was sentenced on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to two and a half years in federal prison without parole for illegally possessing and transferring machine guns, an Anderson Manufacturing, Model AM-15, multi-caliber firearm containing an AR-type machine gun conversion device and two AR-type machine gun conversion devices, according to a news release from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Harris pleaded guilty in federal court back in April.

Court documents say on Jan. 24, 2024, Harris sold an AR-style firearm containing an auto sear, two additional auto sears and ammunition to an un

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