United States v. Brownlee

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The defendant was convicted by a jury of being a felon in possession of a gun, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and was sentenced to 60 months in prison. He possessed the gun — a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol, model SW40YE — in Indiana. To convict him the government had to prove that the gun had been “shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.” § 922(g). (We don’t understand what “shipped” adds to “transported” — what is transported may not have been shipped, but what is shipped must have been transported. But no matter.) To prove this, the…