A convicted felon who once planned to create a “hit squad” to kill Black and Jewish people pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Monday to possessing two homemade rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

Shane Robert Smith, 24, of Whitehall, who was initially convicted in a 2016 sting of possessing a machine gun, admitted he violated a federal law which prohibits convicted felons from possessing a firearm.

Smith was released from prison in April 2018, when he began a three-year term of supervised release. In January 2020, officers with state parole and federal probation made an unannounced visit to Smith’s home and found "items consistent with white supremacy beliefs (militia flags, combat field guides, notes on reloading ammunition),” court papers show.

Read more: Times Union (Albany)