Mass. Man Gets 42 Months for Being Felon with Firearm

Ira Grayson, 29, of Dorchester, MA, was sentenced this week in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 42 months after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith in a press statement.

On Dec. 8, 2014, the Boston Police Department Youth Violence Strike Force captured two videos of Grayson possessing firearms at a firing range. Law enforcement obtained documentation that showed on Dec. 7, 2014, Grayson rented two firearms: an IMI, model UZI, 9 mm, machine gun and a Sig Sauer, model M400, 5.56 ml, semi-auto rifle.

Grayson is a convicted felon and barred from possessing a firearm. Both firearms traveled through interstate commerce prior to Grayson possessing them.

“Prosecuting individuals who violate the federal firearms laws is a high priority for our office,” stated Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. “We will work with our law enforcement partners to identify, investigate, and bring to justice those persons who possess firearms when they are prohibited from doing so, whether that possession occurs on the street or on a firing range.”

The case was investigated by the Boston Police Department Youth Violence Strike Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra M. Walsh.