Hoover had no reason to believe, at any point, that he would be engaging in criminal conduct if - as alleged - he entered into an agreement with a tchotchke salesman to discuss stainless steel cards with a design on them on his YouTube channel.” The strips were etched with a design that prosecutors said a federal agent followed with a cutting tool to create a device that turned a semiautomatic AR-15 into a fully automatic machine gun that fired round after round with a single pull on the trigger.īut defense lawyers argued the 1934 law didn’t cover what their clients did, and that they ended up under indictment partly because they complain about government gun regulations.
Prosecutors contended the pair broke the National Firearms Act, a 1934 law that restricts sales of machine guns, by promoting card-sized strips of metal that Ervin sold under the brand name Auto Key Card. Attorney David Mesrobian told jurors seated Monday.
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Attorneys argued over whether two entrepreneurs marketed metal trinkets or DIY devices for illegally converting thousands of rifles into unregistered machine guns as a federal trial opened in Jacksonville.Ĭlay County business owner Kristopher “Justin” Ervin and YouTube creative Matthew Hoover “conspired to distribute at a massive scale,” Assistant U.S.
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