Legal Opinion
United States v. Craig Meadows
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 1996No. 95-3629PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Craig Meadows was convicted of possession of a firearm not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)), and possession of a firearm made in violation of the provisions of U.S.C. Title 26, Chapter 53 (26 U.S.C. § 5861(c)). Upon conviction, he was sentenced to two concurrent terms of twenty-seven months in prison. The firearm in question was alleged to be a rifle having a barrel of less than 16 inches in length, a firearm as defined by 26 U.S.C. §§ 5845(a)(3) and 5845(c). In this timely appeal, Meadows argues that the…
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