United States v. Keller

OPINION OF THE COURT

HARDIMAN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to interpret § 2K2.1(b)(6) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines (USSG), which increases a defendant’s offense level by four points when he “used or possessed any firearm or ammunition in connection with another felony offense.” In a trio of cases over the past decade, we crafted a test for district courts to use in deciding when to apply USSG § 2K2.1(b)(6). We held that for an offense to count as “another felony offense,” it must be distinguished from the firearms offense of conviction in two ways: the offense conduct…