UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dennis Charles MACK, Defendant-Appellant

OPINION

TROTT, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

This case is about contraband firearms outlawed by Congress and targeted for confiscation and destruction, and who can and cannot possess them once seized by a law enforcement agency.

Dennis Charles Mack, a private citizen, challenges his convictions for unlawful possession of sawed-off shotguns and rifles in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d), and posses*469sion of handguns with obliterated serial numbers in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(k). He argues that because he intended to destroy the weapons as an agent of the local law enforcement agencies from which he…