Turner v. United States

In scholarly fashion, my colleagues reject the appellant’s argument that convictions for possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a prohibited weapon merge. In that pedantically perfect commentary, however, two sentences surface which motivate this dissent. The first sentence is, “The gun convictions arose from possession of a single firearm.” Majority op. at 314 (emphasis added). The second sentence, Majority op. at 314 (a direct quote from the recent Supreme Court decision of Rutledge v. United States, — U.S. —, 116 S.Ct. 1241, 134 L.Ed.2d 419 (1996)) is, “Courts may not…