search of the plane. During the recorded calls
Parsons alluded to items (which he referred to as “gifts” and the “nation’s items”) that
were left in the plane and that needed to be removed from the plane immediately.

          Law enforcement traced and testified about the provenance of the gun,
showing an original purchase in Alabama in 2006 by Matthew Lovan. Lovan
testified that he sold the gun to Parsons in 2008 and he never saw it again. Parsons
himself testified that he purchased a gun from Lovan, and he admitted that the firearm
found in the plane appeared to be the same gun that he purchased from Lovan.
Notwithstanding this admission, Parsons claimed to have traded the gun to a friend
who later passed away.

       Here, on two occasions, Parsons himself provided evidence to support a finding
that he knowingly possessed the gun: first, in the recorded jail calls when he
referenced items that needed to be removed from the plane; and, second, when he
admitted at trial that the gun looked like the firearm he purchased from Lovan. Lovan
testified that it was the same gun he sold to Parsons in Alabama in 2008.

      Parsons’ claim that the firearm’s presence on the plane piloted by him to
Nebraska is a surprising and inexplicable coincidence strains credulity. Parsons had
dominion over the plane when he flew from Tennessee to Nebraska. The gun was
found near personal items that belonged to Parsons. And, Parsons had recently
absconded from Tennessee while awaiting trial