A 66-year-old York County resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to straw purchasing firearms as part of an interstate gun trafficking ring.
An investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore Field Office revealed that Gregory Tischuk, a resident of Fort Mill, was trafficking firearms to Baltimore, Maryland, through an illicit gun dealer operating out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Because the Charlotte-based trafficker could not legally possess firearms, he relied on Tischuk to acquire them.
An undercover ATF agent infiltrated the operation, purchasing approximately 106 firearms across Maryland and the Carolinas. Ballistics and serial number traces linked six of those weapons directly back to Tischuk.
Text messages intercepted by authorities showed the trafficker requesting specific models, including Glock 27 pistols, which Tischuk purchased under his own name by falsifying federal ATF Form 4473 documents. In one instance, a firearm bought by Tischuk in Prosperity, South Carolina, was sold to the undercover agent in Maryland just six days later.
Following a federal search warrant executed at Tischuk’s home, agents seized more than 100 firearms. Tischuk subsequently admitted to investigators that he knowingly falsified federal paperwork to purchase and immediately flip the weapons to the trafficker for a profit.
United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis accepted the guilty plea. Tischuk faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.
