United States v. Ronald Cook

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was no “double counting” where two enhancements applied to the same conduct because each enhancement “punished different aspects of the conduct”
• explaining that in this context subsections (b)(5) and (b)(6)(B) “address different aspects of the same action: selling firearms and purchasing drugs”
• characterizing the transfer of firearms to a particular person and the purpose for which the transfer was made as distinct aspects of the same conduct
• “Comment 14(B) to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1 indicates that, when the ‘other offense’ is a drug trafficking offense, the § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B
• U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) enhancement punished the defendants for using the firearms to facilitate the distribution of heroin and was distinct aspect of the defendants’ conduct

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