United States v. Anthony Scherer, Jr.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Anthony J. Scherer, Jr., appeals from the order of the district court, which denied a petition to vacate his conviction for certain violations of the Gun Control Act of 1968. 1

I

In 1974, Scherer was found guilty of nine counts of failure to record the disposition of firearms in violation of the Gun Control Act, and was sentenced to concurrent two-year terms for each count. This court affirmed. United States v. Scherer, 523 F.2d 371 (7th Cir. 1975), cert. denied, 424 U.S. 911, 96 S.Ct. 1108, 47 L.Ed.2d 315 (1976) (Scherer I). In 1976, the…