Berks man draws prison for illegal gun possession in Upper Hanover

Berks man draws prison for illegal gun possession in Upper Hanover

NORRISTOWN — A Berks County man will spend up to six years in prison after he admitted to illegally possessing a firearm in Upper Hanover Township. Richard Birkmire, 41, who listed two addresses in Bally, in the 100 block of Creamery Lane and in the 600 block of Main Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 3 to 6 years in a state correctional facility on a felony charge of person not to possess a firearm in connection with an April 2…