United States v. Matthew Queen

MANION, Circuit Judge.

Matthew Queen repeatedly falsified his address on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Form 4473 when buying guns, and eventually entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of making a false statement to a federal firearms dealer, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6). The district court sentenced Queen to 21 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release. He argues on appeal, as he did in his motion to dismiss the indictment, that providing a false address on a form 4473 is not a crime because a person’s address is not “a fact…