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A 70-year-old Texas man was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to buying an automatic rifle in the 1980s, CBS station KTVT reports. Alfred Pick of Plano purchased the M14 rifle at a gun show that was similar to the weapon he had as an Army lieutenant in the Vietnam War.

"This gun was very rare," Pick attorney Ryne Sandel told KTVT. "You see, at that time it was rare to see one, so he instantly, you know, had a connection to it."

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raided Pick's house last year on a tip about the weapon, KTVT reports. Two weeks before the raid, his wife of 40 years had died of cancer, according to the station.

Pick and his wife had a gun collection of about 14 weapons, Sandel said. "Many of them were collector's items," he said.

JustSomeOldGuy wrote: Fri Oct 19, 2018 10:04 am - WHEN in the '80's?
- was he convicted for buy a firearm, or for not having the tax stamp paperwork? let's be concise here.
- if the wife had cancer, he was probably ratted out by some visiting nurse or disgruntled caregiver, not by friends or neighbors.
- weren't there surplus M14's sold in the '70's that had been welded/milled to be semi-auto only?