RONEY, Circuit Judge:
On this appeal from a conviction for a felon's purchase of a gun in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. App. § 1202(a), the two issues raised by defendant concern the interstate commerce nexus and the scienter required to convict. We hold that a twenty year hiatus between interstate travel of the gun and its purchase by defendant does not make the federal act inoperable, and that the probated felon's misunderstanding of his status under Texas law provided...
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