Legal Opinion
United States v. Jerry Muzika
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 1993No. 92-1552PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Jerry Muzika tells us that his fatal flaw is a fanatical passion for collecting guns, born of an unsuccessful effort to gain the love of his father. Unfortunately for the son, he also acquired a taste for selling firearms—in this case to an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms—including two $4,000 M-60 machine guns, a silencer without a serial number for an Inter-Tec 9 pistol, live hand grenades also without serial numbers, and a Browning Automatic Rifle (O.R. 6). A search of Muzika’s house also turned up an Uzi machine gun, a .45…
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