United States v. Munoz

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-appellant Mattias Munoz, Jr. (Munoz) appeals his conviction, following a jury trial, of violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), by possessing “a firearm, namely, a New England Firearms Company, model Pardner SB-1, 20 gauge shotgun,” when he had been convicted of a felony.

Munoz asserts that the evidence is insufficient because there was no showing the weapon in question was a “firearm” in that there was no evidence it met the 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(3)(A) definition as a weapon that “will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an…