RACINE (WITI) -- 42-year-old Donald Rees of Racine has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally making, possessing, and transferring homemade pipe guns.
Rees was charged with two counts of illegally making firearms, two counts of possessing an unregistered firearm, and two counts of illegally transferring a firearm. Each of the six counts charged carries a maximum possible imprisonment for not more than ten years, a fine of not more than $250,000, or both.
The indictment alleges that Rees made seven homemade pipe guns and sold these guns on two separate occasions. The firearms were described as destructive devices in the form of slam-type weapons, each consisting of two sections of metal pipe, one of which would slide into the other, with the wider pipe having an end cap through which a metal screw extends into the pipe to act as a firing pin to contact the primer in order to expel the ammunition out of the weapon when the pipes are pushed together.
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