United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Jesse Warner, Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee

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• concluding, based on explicit language and legislative history, that § 922(o)(2)(A) “was enacted so that military personnel and police officers, when acting officially, could utilize and possess machine guns”
• “To read this subsection to permit an exception for private citizens would essentially eliminate the federal prohibition entirely.”
• statute “is properly read to permit only lawful possession of machine guns by federal or state agents acting in an official capacity.”
• “under the authority of” means acting in an official capacity
• the exception does not apply to private citizens

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).