SEATTLE — The U.S. Attorney’s Office - Western District of Washington says that a 26-year-old Seattle man was sentenced to over two years in prison after police found that he turned his apartment into a gun workshop.
Andre Justice Atwater was tried for possession of a machine gun after police found several firearms in his apartment.
Atwater was arrested in June 2024 after shooting two men with a high-caliber BB gun in the parking lot of his Chinatown–International District apartment building.
During a search of Atwater’s apartment, police found he had turned his bedroom into a workshop for manufacturing guns.
Police recovered 25 firearms, 20 of which were ghost guns made in his apartment.
Investigators also found 103 Glock switch devices, which can convert Glock handguns into fully automatic weapons similar to machine guns.
Assistant United States Attorney Todd Greenberg sought a three-year prison sentence based on the number of switches found in the apartment.
“This is a very serious offense,” said U.S. District Judge James L. Robart. “The most common illegal use for 3D printers is producing illegal firearms.”
In addition to more than two years in prison for the machine gun possession charge, Atwater was sentenced to three years of supervised release and less than one year for the BB gun assault.
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