An El Mirage man, Abdur-R-Ahin Shamsid-Deen, was sentenced last week to 30 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to Dealing Firearms Without a License.
According to the Department of Justice, from April to October 2019, the 43-year-old Shamsid-Deen bought, and later sold, at least 55 firearms – mostly handguns – from Arizona gun stores for the purpose of selling them for a profit.
Some of the handgun purchases were made for known members of a criminal street gang in Los Angeles, California. Law enforcement recovered 30 of the handguns that Shamsid-Deen purchased: 28 were recovered near Los Angeles, and two were recovered in Phoenix.
Some of the firearms were used in robberies and drive-by shootings, and others were recovered from prohibited possessors—persons who are legally prohibited from possessing firearms.