United States v. Donald K. Lane

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• finding violation of NFA, in light of Leocal, was not a crime of violence under § 924(c)(3)(B) using a similar analysis
• limiting its holding to “legal” firearms by holding that “[s]ome firearms, it is true — for example sawed-off shotguns — have no significant lawful use, and so their possession by felons may well constitute a crime of violence(4)27” (citations omitted)
• “[E]x-felons have the same motives as lawful possessors of firearms to possess a firearm — self-defense, hunting, gun collecting, and target practice.”
• “[E]x-felons have the same motives as lawful possessors of firearms to possess a firearm--self-defense, hunting, gun collecting, and target practice.”
• “Some firearms, it is true — for- example sawed-off shotguns — have no significant lawful use, and so their possession by felons may well constitute a crime of violence . . .”
• “Most felonies after all are not violent ..., and ex-felons have the same motives as lawful possessors of firearms to possess a firearm — self defense, hunting, gun collecting, and target practice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).