2 Georgia men charged as part of ‘dark net’ gun smuggling ring

By Chris Eger

A four-year international investigation produced indictments against the two men as part of a conspiracy to illegally export guns overseas hidden inside consumer electronics.
Gerren Johnson, 28, of Atlanta and William Jackson, 29, of East Point, Georgia, were charged in connection to a series of guns sold across three continents using various underground anonymity networks between February 2013 and April 2014. In all, authorities tracked over 50 suspect packages mailed from Georgia to more than a dozen countries.
Court documents show investigators were first tipped off to the ring in June 2013 when customs agents in Melbourne, Australia, found a Zastava 9mm pistol hidden inside a karaoke machine shipped to a local man from a post office in Winston, Georgia. Australian authorities interviewed the man the package was intended for, who told police he bought the gun illegally on Blackmarket Reloaded from a vendor named CherryFlavor for $3,000 in Bitcoin.
Back in the states, the gun was traced to Jackson who purchased it legally from a licensed gun store in Tennessee and, when questioned by federal agents, said he had resold the gun in the Atlanta area in May 2013.
Meanwhile, at least 17 other packages surfaced in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany,

Source: Guns.com