Citation

Benson FC. Univ. Chic. Law Rev. 2013; 80(3): 1231-1267.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, University of Chicago Press)

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Abstract

In 2001, Leroy Miller took Ricky Fines onto his northern Indiana farm as a boarder. Due to Miller and Fines's mutual interest in guns, the pair began purchasing, refurbishing, and selling firearms as business associates. After three years of uneventful gun refurbishment, federal agents executed a search warrant at the farm in April 2004. The agents discovered and seized three weapons in Miller's home and thirty-one located in a nearby shed, all purportedly belonging to Miller. Absent any aggravating circumstances, Miller's constructive possession of these thirty-four firearms would have been completely legal and unsuspicious. Unfortunately for Miller, Fines was a convicted felon, and Miller knew it....

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