United States v. Arturo Gonzalez

How courts have described this case

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• holding that empty magazines for firearms meet the definition of “firearm components” under the statute
• holding that a “lack of binding authority is often dispositive in the plain-error context”
• holding that a “lack of binding authority is often dispositive in the plain-error context”
• holding that an AK-47 magazine “comports with the common meaning of ‘component’”
• noting that a “lack of binding 2 Case: 22-50622 Document: 00516697060 Page: 3 Date Filed: 03/31/2023 No. 22-50622 authority is often dispositive in the plain-error context”
• noting that a “lack of binding 3 Case: 24-10779 Document: 44-1 Page: 4 Date Filed: 04/17/2025 No. 24-10779 authority is often dispositive in the plain-error context”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).