Legal Opinion
United States v. Gravel
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 20, 2011No. Docket 10-1405PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Per curiam
In August, 2008, Sean Gravel stole a Colt M-16A1. The stolen weapon originally was manufactured to fire automatically, but was later modified to shoot semi-automatically. Gravel was charged with, and pleaded guilty to, knowingly possessing a stolen firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(j) and 924(a)(2). The United States District Court for the District of Vermont (Murtha, J.) applied a six-level enhancement to Gravel’s sentence pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(5), finding that the stolen weapon was both designed to fire automatically and could be readily restored to fire automatically. We…
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