an SBR requires a FEDERAL TAX STAMP when purchased
had it been a real SBR, the cops would NEVER have given it back to him... and the FEDs would have surely charged him wi a federal crime.
I agree. The judge was correct to dismiss that charge. I was thinking the prosecutors may have been happy to see that charge dismissed because then the jury can’t convict him on that charge, which should be reversed on appeal, and instead convict him on 2nd degree murder.