Shopowner pleads guilty to selling rifle firing pin to media intern

Loh Boon Cheng, who owns Lay Hwa Store on the second floor of the Golden Mile Food Centre in Beach Road, pleaded guilty yesterday to selling the M16 firing pin to a media intern on March 5.

The 24-year-old intern bought the pin for $70 from her shop, located in what is commonly known as the Army Market.

One of the intern's colleagues lodged a police report about the incident a week later.

For selling the firing pin, she can be jailed up to three years and fined $10,000.

For having the component without a licence, she can be jailed up to three years and fined a maximum of $5,000.

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