GUILTY OF MANUFACTURING SUBMACHINE-GUNS

   MONTREAL—A Montreal factory owner has been found guilty of illegally manufacturing pistol-sized submachine-guns — some of which were used by Toronto criminals — after claiming in court he thought he was making paintball guns.
   “It had to look as real as possible,” Jean-Pierre Huot, 61, owner of Perfection Metal Inc., testified in court.
   Huot was found guilty by a jury on Saturday of six counts of making prohibited firearms and silencers. He was acquitted of two charges of possession of an unloaded weapon with easily accessible ammunition.