<div id="subtitle">Ex-con sentenced to 2 1/2 years for selling gun used to kill former NFL player McNair</div><div><p>A convicted murderer who pleaded guilty to selling the gun used to kill ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.</p><p>Thirty-three-year-old Adrian Gilliam, of nearby La Vergne, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Nashville to 30 months.</p><p>Gilliam acknowledged during a court hearing in September that he sold a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic pistol to McNair's mistress for $100.</p><p>Nashville police said the woman, 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi, used the weapon to kill McNair and herself on July 4.</p><p>Gilliam was arrested about two weeks later and initially pleaded not guilty.</p><p></p><p>(This version CORRECTS that Kazemi was 20 years old when she died.))</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=65662682&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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