A man who was pulled over while driving a Jeep with sirens and red emergency lights and carrying four firearms, including a submachine gun, was sentenced Friday to 46 months in prison.
In March, Denver police pulled over the silver Jeep on Colorado Boulevard near Cherry Creek Drive about 2:35 a.m. Andrew Thomas Gunzner, 22, of Littleton, was driving with the lights and siren “for fun after leaving Shotgun Willie’s,” according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office.
Among the four guns in Gunzner’s Jeep was an MP-5 9mm submachine gun.
During the investigation, Gunzner told police he was a salesman and apprentice at Prairie Arms Manufacturing in Littleton and that he did not have permission to take the weapons.
Gunzner was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on April 19 and pleaded guily July 12 to charges of possession of a machine gun and theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee. During a search of Gunzner’s home, police recovered 14 other firearms, including a .223-caliber fully automatic rifle. Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post
