Minnesota man pleads guilty to attempting to sell weapons to Hamas

(MPR) A New Brighton, Minn., man who admitted being part of the far-right Boogaloo Bois militia group on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge.

Michael Robert Solomon, 31, got on the FBI’s radar last year, when he was seen carrying a gun at the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.

Solomon admitted trying to sell weapons to a member of the Middle East militant group Hamas, who turned out to be an FBI informant.

Solomon said in court that he offered to sell the purported Hamas member gun silencers that he made in his garage as well as auto sears, devices that convert a semi-automatic rifle such as an AR-15 to fully automatic.

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