http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050326/nysa009.html?.v=3Norman David Somerville, a 44-year-old resident of Mesick, Michigan, was sentenced to 80 months in prison and a $2,000 fine for possessing and distributing some 13 machine guns. According to the ATF and Michigan State Police Somerville was growing marijuana and stockpiling a .50-caliber anti-aircraft gun, machine guns, explosive powder, bomb-making materials, automatic assault weapons and tens of thousands of ammunition rounds on his 40-acre compound in Wexford County, near Traverse City. According to his close associates, Somerville was filled with rage and plotting to ambush people.
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Law enforcement officers found the 40-acre compound just as a confidential militia source had described. Hidden in a tree line, Somerville had mounted a maneuverable anti-aircraft gun in a position to command logical fields of fire and approaches to the property and any airline flight paths in the open sky. This M2 .50 caliber gun was over five feet long and weighed more than 150 pounds with tripod. It had a maximum range of over 4 miles. Somerville had tens of thousands of belted ammunition rounds for the gun.
Somerville had several M1919 .30 caliber machineguns, one locked, loaded and ready to go behind the side door of a mobile panel van and another machine gun mountable on to a gun turret installed in a Jeep Cherokee where the passenger seat had been removed. These .30 caliber machine guns were capable of a sustained rate of 400 to 550 rounds per minute with an effective range of one-half mile. Somerville had thousands of rounds of belted ammunition for these weapons.
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Agents also found photographs of President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with the cross-hairs of a high-powered rifle scope drawn over their heads.
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