Legal Opinion
United States v. John W. Rogers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 25, 2001No. 01-2097PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Federal agents found in John Rogers’s garage a home-made silencer for a MAC-11 semiautomatic pistol. He has been convicted of possessing a “firearm” (the silencer, see 18 U.S.C. § 921 and 26 U.S.C. § 5845(a)(7)) not registered to him in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Every “firearm” (a term of art, see Staples v. United States, 511 U.S. 600, 114 S.Ct. 1793, 128 L.Ed.2d 608 (1994)) must be registered in this Record, see 26 U.S.C. §§ 5822, 5841, by its maker and by each transferor. The initial entry into the Record and each transfer occasion a…
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