United States v. Carl Leslie Buggs

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• upholding district court’s finding regarding amount of cocaine involved, where each witness testified as to a different amount
• permitting Indiana law-enforcement officers to testify that Smith and Wesson handguns were manufactured in Springfield, Massachusetts
• upholding firearms conviction where police officer and lay witness testified that they saw “what appeared to them to be a large pistol. It appeared to each of them to be a .357 magnum but neither was sure.” (quotation marks omitted)
• conviction upheld because inoperable weapon was \designed to shoot\ as required by 18 U.S.C. sec. 921(a)(3)
• “We cannot accept [the] claim that the govern- ment is required to prove that the gun was operable.”
• ATF agent testified that “Smith & Wesson handguns are manufactured in Springfield, Massachusetts. He also testified that a .357 magnum is a revolver and no revolvers are manufactured within Indiana’s borders.” (emphasis added)

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