United States v. Alphonso Buster Gilbert, Sr.

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• finding that justification defense is applicable in only the rarest of circumstances and that “the scenarios in which a defendant could even colorably assert its applicability are extraordinarily uncommon”
• acknowl edging that we have “recognized the plausibility of a justification defense to a felon-in-possession charge”
• “Congress specifically declined to require the showing of willfulness necessary to punish violations of certain other subsections of § 922”

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