United States v. Robert W. Edwards

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• holding that the government must prove that the defendant knew that the barrel of his shotgun was less than eighteen inches
• noting that the fact that the shotgun's length is externally obvious is a means of proving knowledge
• noting that knowledge of the weapon’s length can be inferred from a sawed-off weapon’s appearance
• noting that the fact that the shotgun’s length is externally obvious is a means of proving knowledge
• “[T]he fact that Staples itself involved a machinegun belies any attempt to read into the passage a general exemption to the mens rea require ment for such ‘quasi-suspect’ guns....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).