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OCR: gun of any type, the defendant is absolutely liable for possessing proscribed "firearm, we would implicitly expand Congress negative jud grent concerning the possession of certain particularly dangerous guns al uns We believe that Congress, against the back- ground widespread lawful gun ownership. wished criminalize the mere unregistered passession of certain types firearms often indistinguishable from other, non -prohibited types would have spoken clearly that effect not see how the line between the individual who knowingly possesses gun of some kind but not firer arm within the meaning of the statute and individual who possesses firearm not even realizing gun Harris, 656 F.2d at 259 260. The facts presented at trial of the petitioner and Set forth herein, show that the peti- tioner did r ...