United States v. Bishop

BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.

This is a direct criminal appeal from Defendant Scott Bishop's convictions on one count of unlawfully manufacturing machineguns, in violation of 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (a), and one count of unlawfully possessing *624 or transferring machineguns, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (o). A machinegun is "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (b). "The term ... also include[s] ... any part designed and intended solely and…