A Utah man claimed he was not guilty of manufacturing a part that turns a regular AR-15 rifle into a fully automatic weapon. Whatever the buyer does with the small piece of aluminum is on them, he argued.
“Once the kit is sold, whose responsibility is it to make sure it stays within the confines of the law?” Scott Ray Bishop asked the federal court jury during his closing arguments Friday.
But the jury, hours later, found Bishop guilty as charged of one count each of unlawfully engaging in the business of manufacturing machine guns and illegal possession of machine guns from 2013 to 2016.