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· 6/26/1997

United States v. Sherard Dale Brown

Citations

  • 117 F.3d 353
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 15503
  • 1997 WL 351686

How courts have described this case

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  • collecting cases holding that firearm need not be operable to meet statutory definition of firearm
  • listing cases holding that removal or dis- abling of firing pin does not disqualify weapon as\firearm\
  • “[T]he removal of a gun’s firing pin is not so significant an alteration as to exclude the gun from the definition of firearm” under the Guidelines.
  • hold- ing that removal of firing pin does not disqualify weapon as \fire- arm\

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Judges: Coffey, Flaum, Wood

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