Barrett v. United States

Petitioner Pearl Barrett has been convicted by a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis*213trict of Kentucky of a violation of 18 U. S. C. § 922 (h),1 a part of the Gun Control Act of 1968, Pub. L. 90-618, 82 Stat. 1213, amending the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Pub. L. 90-351, 82 Stat. 197, enacted earlier the same year. The issue before us is whether § 922 (h) has application to a purchaser’s intrastate acquisition of a firearm that previously, but independently of the purchaser’s receipt, had been transported in interstate commerce from the…