United States v. Pete Woodrum Lard and Lloyd Dean Rigsby

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellants Pete Woodrum Lard and Lloyd Dean Rigsby were convicted on counts of conspiring to transfer (18 U.S.C. § 371) and transferring (26 U.S.C. § 5861(e)) an unregistered “firearm” — i.e., “a destructive device” referred to as a pipe bomb. 1 Lard was also convicted on separate counts for making (26 U.S.C. § 5861(f)) and possessing (26 U.S.C. § 5861(d)) this destructive device. On appeal, Lard claims his conviction on all counts should be reversed because he was entrapped by an undercover government agent. Rigsby claims, as grounds for reversal, that…