Ex-Carnival Kia Spokesman Fined For Unregistered Submachine Guns

NASHVILLE, TN -- Don't you leave ... until you pay the clerk a 100 grand.

Former Carnival Kia spokesman, 58-year-old Chris Bostick of Brentwood, was fined $100,000 and sentenced to five years probation for possessing two unregistered submachine guns, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee announced Wednesday.

Bostick was indicted in October 2015 and pleaded guilty in July 2017 on charges of possessing a a .45 caliber submachine gun and 9 millimeter submachine gun that weren’t registered with the National Firearms Registry as required by federal law.

The first six months of the five years probation will be spent under home confinement under the sentencing order by Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who also ordered Bostick forfeit the guns and perform 500 hours of community service.

Bostick pleaded no contest to a domestic assault charge in 2013 following an "altercation" with his wife, who had also appeared in commercials for Carnival Kia. The automaker rebranded the dealership as "Universal Kia" shortly thereafter and while Bostick remained a part owner, he stopped appearing in commercials.

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Photo via Williamson County Sheriff's Department