State v. Salyers

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

Koochiching County sheriffs deputies executing a search warrant easily pried open a gun cabinet in Tommy Salyers’s bedroom and found three firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun with its serial number scratched off. A jury convicted Salyers of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Because the shotgun was located in Salyers’s bedroom — an area where he had exclusive control — and the weak container in which the gun was located left it readily accessible, we affirm the conviction…