Labels:book | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: in the Mitteider opinion, However, in Shilling. the defen- dant posse: pass: sotme fifty guns, ten of which were origi- rally legal semiautomatic rifles that had been internall. altered Shilling possessed pen gun. silencer and short -barrelled rifle pue was charged with narcotics offenses There was 'substantial" circumstantial evidence presented that Shilling knew that his weapons were verted. The circuit found that Morgan 1 United States, 564 F.2d 803 {8th 1977) was instructive and persuasive and therefore dectined to find that the National Firearms Act reguired Aue specific intent secure conviction. Morgan the defendant was found guilty pos sessing UB unregistered Colt M-16 machinegun 1977 when Morgan was decided, the interpretive repercussions of the Gun Control Act had mou been realize ...
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