United States v. Jose Luis Morales

ED CARNES, Chief Judge:

*1364 Congress has decided that a gun in the hands of a convicted felon is not just bad, but bad enough to be a crime. That legislative decision, coupled with his own bad conduct, proved to have bad consequences for Jose Luis Morales in the form of more than 15 years imprisonment. In this appeal he makes a number of arguments against his conviction and sentence, none of which are good, at least not good enough to prevail.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Facts

One day in December 2014, police received an anonymous tip that a white Hispanic male was selling drugs out of a certain house in Miami…