An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to federal charges after he was found in possession of a homemade bomb strong enough to injure or kill anyone nearby if it exploded.

The bomb was one of several suspicious devices confiscated after a 2024 traffic stop in Bibb County last year.

Several guns, including one with the words, “Let Me Get That!!!” hand carved on the gunstock, were confiscated.

Key’onstis Maurice Morgan, 24, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco to illegally possession a weapon made from a shotgun as well as a destructive device, specifically an improvised explosive device-type bomb, Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney Prim Escalona announced Thursday.

Morgan, of Centreville, faces up to 10 years in prison. Sentencing is set for September.

According to the plea agreement, Morgan was a backseat passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by Centreville police on Feb. 16, 2024.

The stop was made because the driver failed to use a turn signal.

Officers learned Morgan had outstanding felony warrants, and he was taken into custody.

The driver gave consent to search the vehicle and police found three guns on the floor of the back seat.

One of the guns was a BB gun, and the other was an inoperable .45 caliber pistol.

The third was a .22 caliber “pipe pistol” fashioned from a single-shot 20-gauge shotgun and loaded with a shell.

Morgan, authorities said, admitted to sawing off the shotgun’s stock and cutting the barrel down to 13.5 inches in length.

He was also in possession of a cardboard tube wrapped in electrical tape that contained 12 grams of energetic powder and a fuse.

Someone weaponized the device by taping or gluing 21 screws, four small razor blades, and assorted staples around the exterior. These small metal pieces would create potentially lethal shrapnel upon explosion.

The other “devices” recovered – but not deemed to be functioning IED’s – were a pepper spray canister wrapped with electrical tape and containing a protruding electrical wire and a two spent rifle casings taped together with metal darts and a plastic dart tip that resembled a fuse.

Morgan told ATF investigators he did not make the devices but took them when an acquaintance wanted them out of her house. He said wanted them because they looked “cool.”

One of the agents told Morgan, “With the bombs, you’re looking at federal time,” to which Morgan replied, “I know,” documents show.

The agents asked Morgan if his behavior was related to meth use and he told them, “he uses whenever he can,” the agent wrote.

The ATF investigated the case along with the Centreville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney W. Lee Gilmer is prosecuting.