United States v. William J. MacQueen Leonard A. Siniscalchi, Diamond J. Armello, Charles P. Zimmerman

PRATT, District Judge:

All defendants appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Sifton, J.) entered on June 2, 1978, convicting them, after a jury trial following a mistrial, of conspiracy to manufacture firearm silencers in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and 26 U.S.C. § 5861. Defendant MacQueen appeals, too, from a judgment entered by the same court on the same day, convicting him of 22 substantive violations of the National Firearms Act. 26 U.S.C. § 5801 et seq.

MacQueen argues that the conduct of government undercover agents who collected…