Crime Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty to Gun Charges The rapper now faces up to a year in prison By Michael Y. Park Published on October 22, 2009 01:25 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: CBS/John Paul Filo/Landov Rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to second-degree weapons possession charges on Thursday in a New York City courtroom, changing his previous not-guilty plea. Under the terms of the plea bargain the rapper, 27, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., may be sentenced to as much as a year in jail. New York City police found a .40-caliber handgun on his tour bus in July 2007, and DNA evidence reportedly linked him to the weapon. If he’d been found guilty by a jury, he could have faced up to three-and-a-half years in prison, Rolling Stone reports. He’s still not out of the woods – Wayne faces a trial for felony drug possession and weapon possession in Arizona after an incident in which marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and a handgun were allegedly found on his tour bus.