United States v. Modina Lim

How courts have described this case

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• “Having re- quired payment of a transfer tax and registration as an aid in collection of that tax, Congress under the taxing power may reasonably impose a penalty on possession of an unregistered firearm.” (quoting United States v. Gresham, 118 F.3d 258, 262 (5th Cir. 1997))
• “Having re- quired payment of a transfer tax and registration as an aid in collection of that tax, Congress under the taxing power may reasonably impose a penalty on possession of an unregistered firearm.” (quoting United States v. Gresham, 118 F.3d 258, 262 (5th Cir. 1997))
• “Section 5861(d), as applied to Lim’s possession of the sawed-off shotgun, is a valid use of Congress’s taxing power”
• upholding charges under the statute as to a short-barreled shotgun
• defendant challenging constitutionality of statute after being convicted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).