Opinion ID: 3210085
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Interview with Martinez

Text: On September 26, 2014, two months after officers seized Martinez’s shortbarrel shotgun, Agents McFarland and Wright interviewed Martinez in Torrington. During the non-custodial interview, Martinez said that he obtained the shotgun from 1 Under 26 U.S.C. §§ 5841 and 5845, shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches long must be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Neither Martinez nor Dowers had registered any firearms, and the seized shotgun wasn’t registered to any other person or entity. 3 an unidentified white male in a field “a couple months” before Dowers’s arrest (so by his account he would have obtained it sometime near late May 2014). R. vol. 1 at 11. Martinez also told Agents McFarland and Wright that the barrel was already cut down when he obtained the shotgun and that he had put the shotgun in Dowers’s car trunk the day that she was arrested. Further, Martinez said that he had previously buried the shotgun in the ground “because there was no need for [him] to be messing with it unless he needed it; and he would leave it buried until the appropriate time.” Id. (alteration in original) (quotation marks omitted).