US-CA5 · jury_instructions
5th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 2.43I
POSSESSION OF A MACHINEGUN
18 U.S.C. §§ 922(o)(1), 924(a)(2)
Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(o)(1), makes it a crime for a person to knowingly
transfer or possess a “machinegun.”
For you to find the defendant guilty of this crime, you must be convinced that the
government has proved each of the following beyond a reasonable doubt:
First: That the defendant possessed [transferred] a machinegun; and
Second: That the defendant knew it was a machinegun or was aware of the firearm ’s
essential characteristics that made it a machinegun as defined.
A “machinegun” is any weapon that shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored
to shoot multiple shots automatically, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
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