UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sahr I. JARVOUHEY, Defendant-Appellant

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

Sahr Jarvouhey, a licensed firearms dealer, appeals his conditional guilty-plea conviction for selling semi-automatic weapons while willfully failing to keep records of the name, age, and residence of the purchaser, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(b)(5). Jarvouhey argues that the district court erred by treating his crime as a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(1), rather than as a misdemeanor under 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(3). Because the felony-penalty provision of section 924(a)(1) plainly applies to anyone who “willfully violates any provision of [chapter 18],”…