LITTLE ROCK — Jurors in the Randeep Mann trial on Friday morning saw a machine gun and a grenade launcher seized from Mann's collection while hearing testimony from weapons dealers who did business with the Russellville physician.
Mann is accused of masterminding a bombing in West Memphis that seriously injured the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board. He is also charged with illegal possession of grenades, an altered shotgun and a reconfigured machine gun.
Lloyd Hahn, a retired arms manufacturer from Missouri, testified he did frequent business with Mann including selling him two reconfigured Russian machine guns, one of which was never registered.
But Hahn testified the machine gun on display in U.S. District Court Friday was not one he manufactured since it didn't have a stamp with his name on it and because the rear section of it was not built with stainless steel.
Thao Le, a former Tulsa, Okla., gun shop owner who served time in federal prison for unlawful weapons possession, also testified Friday, telling the jury he remembered selling guns legally to Mann but couldn't recall meeting him face-to-face and didn't really know him. Le said he was unable to identify Mann in the courtroom.
Le acknowledged the grenade launcher was sold legally to Mann in 1996 and that it was "very possible" the transaction was done in person at the Knob Creek gun convention in Kentucky.
Le said he did sell grenades illegally within his "inner circle" of weapons collectors, but that Mann was not in that group.
Testimony in the trial is expected to continue today with more guns from Mann's collection brought into the courtroom. Mann is a gun collector who also holds a federal dealer's license.