United States v. Jones

RILEY, Chief Judge.

Paul A. Jones pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, a fully loaded .380 caliber Baikal semiautomatic pistol, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). After calculating Jones’s advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines (Guidelines or U.S.S.G.) range to be 77 to 96 months imprisonment (level 21, category VI), the district court 2 sentenced Jones at the bottom of his U.S.S.G. range.

1. BACKGROUND

The sole issue in this appeal is whether the district court properly calculated Jones’s Guidelines range. Jones insists the district court erred in…