United States v. Henry Tarr

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “being engaged in an activity requires more than a single act or transaction or occasional participation”
• conviction for aiding and abetting illegal dealing of firearms reversed where defendant did not know principal offenders were illegal gun dealers
• unlawful transfer of machinegun to undercover agents where “[t]he legal requirements for the transfer of the machine gun . . . were not met”
• “dealpng] in” or “engagpng] in the business of” firearms, within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1) (1982), normally implies more than one isolated transaction, although court could “conceive of a single transaction sufficiently large” to be within statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).