Gun dealer found guilty of having unregistered Lahti 20mm anti-tank gun

By Chris Eger

Mann listed the Lahti for sale on social media for $10,000 with a matching toolkit, four magazines and 10 rounds of 20mm ammunition (Photo: The Rifleman)
A jury in federal court last week found a Georgia man guilty of illegal possession of a destructive device after federal agents found him with an anti-tank gun that was not registered to him.
Guilty is Mark Mann, who operated The Riflemann, self-billed as “Middle Georgia’s largest specialty arms dealer,” based in Macon, for possession of a Lahti L39 anti-tank gun that he was attempting to sell even though it had not been registered to him in compliance with National Firearms Act regulations.
According to court documents, on February 20, 2013, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted a compliance inspection of Mann’s shop and found what they believed to be several criminal violations including possession of numerous NFA items that were not registered to him. These included a select-fire Mini-14 and an M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun. This resulted in the agency conducting a search warrant on The Riflemann the next month during which they discovered numerous NFA firearms were illegally transferred by the shop.
Then in November 2014, a Michigan gun owner contacted

Source: Guns.com