Missouri – A Kansas City has been given a sentence of more than three years in federal prison for his part in having and moving machineguns and conversion devices.
U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips gave 21-year-old Davorian M. Fleming a 37-month sentence on September 9, 2025. Fleming’s guilty plea earlier this year, in which he admitted to having and transferring the devices illegally, led to this decision. Some of the things involved were parts for converting semi-automatic guns into fully automatic guns, which are often known as “switches.”
Court filings show that Fleming admitted that the gadgets were machine guns under federal law and that he helped other people move the unlawful guns. K’Orion A. Duff, 23, of Kansas City, was one of his co-defendants. He had already been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for helping to distribute the devices. Two other people who are involved to the case are still waiting to be sentenced.
Title 26, Section 5845(b) of the U.S. Code says that it is against the law to own or transfer machine guns. That definition clearly includes conversion devices, even if they aren’t mounted to a gun. Officials stress that these switches are very dangerous since they let handguns discharge several bullets with one squeeze of the trigger, which greatly raises the risk of violence.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives looked into the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashleigh Ragner prosecuted it. Officials said the conviction is part of continuous efforts to keep communities safe from dangerous weapons and illegal changes to guns.
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Operation Take Back America is a federal Department of Justice program that aims to lower violent crime, break up cartels and multinational criminal networks, and make sure that gun laws are followed. The initiative uses the resources of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces and Project Safe Neighborhoods to go after high-risk offenders and make communities safer.
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Fleming’s 37-month prison sentence is the most recent result in a case that federal officials believe shows how dangerous it is to change guns illegally and the larger effort to reduce violent crime across the country.
