Holding that a violation of § 5861(d) may be established without proof that the defendant was aware of the fact that the firearm he possessed was unregistered
Holding that despite the presence of two warring factions, a single conspiracy existed, because the factions "still identified themselves as members" of the gang, "invoked the reputation and power of the group" when dealing with outsiders, "and expected the entire organization to endure beyond the ‘war’ "
Holding that, after Heller, the defendant's possession of a machine gun and an unregistered sawed-off shotgun was not protected by the Second Amendment because those weapons were "not in common use by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes and therefore [fell] within the category of dangerous and unusual weapons that the government can prohibit for individual use"
Holding that defendant was entitled to disclosure of informant but only because defendant had first made substantial preliminary showing of affiant's untruthfulness entitling defendant to a Franks hearing