A CRAIGAVON man has admitted having guns, "full metal jacket" bullets and an improvised rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
The trial of Thomas John Edwards (49) was due to start at Belfast Crown Court yesterday but instead a defence lawyer asked for the charges to be put to him again.
Edwards pleaded guilty to having 5.1g of mixed small arms propellant and a grip-stock assembly for a propelled recoilless improvised grenade launcher on August 10 2011 with intent to "enable another person to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland".
Edwards, from Meadowbrook, Tullygally, also pleaded guilty to having a Beretta pistol, an assault rifle, two magazines and a total of 47 "full metal jacketed bullets" with the same intention.
He admitted a further charge of possessing a balaclava for a terrorist purpose and providing his home for terrorism.
No other details of the case were revealed in court yesterday and Edwards was remanded into custody until he is sentenced in September, by which time pre-sentence probation reports will have been compiled.