United States v. Joseph Anthony Cruz

How courts have described this case

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• construing a statute narrowly when Congress’s intent was not clear and statute was written ambiguously
• “While § 925(a)(1) excepts use of a firearm for a government purpose and in turn, receipt of the firearm for government use, it does not permanently exempt those firearms from the federal gun laws.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).