Coolio's Shocking Gun Collection

10 months ago 12th Jan 06:35

Rapper Coolio can't stop adding to his collection of lethal weapons - despite previously serving time for illegally possessing a firearm.The Gangsta's Paradise hitmaker, currently appearing on U.K. reality show Celebrity Big Brother, has admitted to having an arsenal of 54 guns, including a machine gun, in a new video obtained by Britain's News Of The World.

You can’t even have one in California no more

In the footage, recorded in London shortly before the star joined Big Brother, he reportedly brags about building his massive collection - despite pleading guilty to a charge of being a felon in possession of a gun in 1999. He says, "Me myself personally, I’ve got 54 guns - 54! During the Nineties, I had this fascination with guns. Now I’ve got 54 guns. It’s like collecting coins."They said I couldn’t have a gun around me no more. So I took all the guns and put them in different (places). I sold them to different people in my family. They are my guns, but I sold them alls to my cousins and s**t like that."I have a 50-calibre machine gun. It’s semi automatic not fully automatic. I bought it in California. You can’t even have one in California no more. So I had to sent it to my family in Arizona. We put it in a car and we drove it to Arizona and that’s where that motherfucker is".Coolio - real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr - was convicted and sentenced to ten days in jail and 40 hours of community service after he was arrested in California in 1998 for possessing a concealed weapon and marijuana.