United States v. Tommy Bruce Glasgow

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, Tommy Bruce Glasgow, was convicted of violating 18 App. U.S.C. § 1202(a)(1) for receiving a firearm after having been previously convicted of a felony. He contends: (1) that the government failed to demonstrate a sufficient connection between the defendant’s receipt of the firearm and interstate commerce, and (2) that the evidence did not show that he had previously been convicted of a felony.

The evidence shows that on January 29, 1970, Target Stores of Denver, Colorado, shipped the firearm in interstate commerce to Harland Bettner, of Burnsville,…