Legal Opinion
United States v. Rentz
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 3, 2015No. 12-4169PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge,
joined by LUCERO, TYMKOVICH, HOLMES, BACHARACH, and MORITZ, Circuit Judges.
ON REHEARING EN BANC
New statutes have proven as enigmatic as 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Everyone knows that, generally speaking, the statute imposes heightened penalties on those who use guns to commit violent crimes or drug offenses. But the details are full of devils. Originally passed in 1968, today the statute says that “any person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ... uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a…
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