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The owner of a factory in LaSalle who was convicted last month of trafficking in prohibited semi-automatic pistols will learn on Thursday how much time he will have to serve behind bars for producing firearms that made their way into the hands of organized crime figures.

Jean-Pierre Huot, 62, was convicted by a jury on six charges that his company, Perfection Métal, sold Tec-9-type semi-automatic pistols despite claiming he was merely making paintball guns — even though they were equipped with silencers. Pierre Larivière, the company’s vice-president, was acquitted in the same trial.

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During sentencing arguments held before Superior Court Justice France Charbonneau at the Montreal courthouse earlier this month, prosecutor Philippe Vallières-Roland asked that Huot be sentenced to a 10-year prison term for selling guns to people he knew were involved in organized crime. Defence lawyer Robert Bellefeuille recommended a five-year prison term.