U.S. v. DALTON

No. 91-1149.

960 F.2d 121 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John William DALTON, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Szekely, Asst. Federal Public Defender (Michael G. Katz, Federal Public Defender, with him on the brief), Denver, Colo., for defendant-appellant.

Joseph Mackey, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Michael J. Norton, U.S. Atty., with him on the brief), Denver, Colo., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SEYMOUR and TACHA, Circuit Judges, and BRIMMER, District Judge.


SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.

John Dalton, an attorney, accepted a firearm as a fee from a client, who was a licensed firearms dealer and who had converted the weapon into a machinegun in 1989. Dalton was found guilty of possessing and transferring an unregistered firearm in violation of the National Firearms Act, I.R.C. §§ 5861(d), (e) (NFA). A separate criminal statute prohibits the possession of any machinegun made after that statute's effective date...

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