Elderly Moniteau County man faces federal gun charges

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

An octogenarian from California, Missouri, was charged in federal court this week with a number of gun charges.

Aubrey Foxworthy, 81, was charged with dealing guns without a license, two counts of having an unregistered gun and one count of having a machine gun, according to the superseding indictment filed Tuesday in the Missouri Western District Court.

A press release from the Department of Justice, Foxworthy had a silencer that wasn’t registered to him as well as an AR-15 conversion device.

The indictment says that he has the devices in September 2024.

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