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Guilty pleas entered from massive weapons haul

A Prince George man pleaded guilty Monday to six charges related to the seizure of a large number of guns and bullets from his home nearly two years ago.
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Cache of guns seized by RCMP and CBSA. citizen photo by Brent Braaten Nov 13 2013

A Prince George man pleaded guilty Monday to six charges related to the seizure of a large number of guns and bullets from his home nearly two years ago.

Karl Heinz Haus, 55, had originally faced 17 charges in relation to the haul from a Prospect Point home in the Hart Highlands but they have since been condensed into a half dozen.

In November 2013, police uncovered nine rifles - a fully-automatic M-16 and a fully-automatic AK-47 among them - as well as three handguns, two of which were loaded, and two shotguns.

They also found five 100-round capacity drum magazines, 50 assault rifle magazines, four bullet proof vests and two "morning stars" - spiked metal balls attached with chains to wooden handles.

Investigators also discovered 31,000 rounds of large and small-calibre ammunition. It would take slightly more than eight-and-a-half hours to fire off all the rounds at a shot per second.

A pre-sentence report was ordered and the matter was put over for sentencing, which will occur in October at the earliest.