A Co Derry man has been acquitted of a range of terrorist and firearms offences arising from the search of his home and outbuildings almost five years ago.
However, Dermot Kenneth Burke was found guilty of having a shortened single barrelled shotgun without a certificate and was handed a nine month sentence suspended for three years.
Passing sentence at Belfast Crown Court today, Judge Kevin Finnegan warned Burke not to commit any further offences during period of the suspended sentence.
He added: "It is clear that you have an undue interest in firearms and associated paraphernalia.
"Be careful what comes onto your property with your knowledge and don't place yourself and your family at risk in the next three years.''
Burke (52), of Main Street, Dungiven, went on trial earlier this week and denied a total of four charges.
The father of two had pleaded not guilty to possessing a shortened shotgun and a Webley revolver in suspicious circumstances and having the two firearms without a certificate.
The labourer also denied possessing articles for the purposes of terrorism, namely a quantity of pick axe handles, a sledgehammer, an iron bar, a quantity of balaclavas, a quantity of improvised face masks, three imitation firearms and a 9mm blank calibre cartridge.
All the items were seized during a planned police of his property on July 22, 2013.
In addition, the prosecutor said also located during the search was an article published in the Derry News on July 12, 2012 which bore the headline 'Republican Group Threatens Action' and which featured an image of masked men with weapons.
These weapons, the prosecutor said, were "similar in appearance" to the imitation firearms found during a search of Burke's property which in turn "strongly supports the hypothesis they are the same guns."
Giving his ruling today on the four charge, Judge Finnegan said he was "not satisfied to the requisite standard'' that Burke had the firearms in suspicious circumstances.
He said he was also not satisfied that the items seized were offences under the Terrorism Act, saying such items were regularly used in "organised crime''.
The judge ordered the forfeiture and the destruction of the shotgun.