United States v. Loggins
United States v. Loggins
Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
Wallace Lee Loggins appeals his bench trial conviction for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
Loggins contends that the government failed to establish the jurisdictional
We reject Loggins’ jurisdictional argument. We have held that the felon in possession statute, 18 U.S.G. § 922(g)(1), “require[s] only ‘the minimal [jurisdictional] nexus that the firearm have been, at some time, in interstate commerce.’ ” United States v. Hanna, 55 F.3d 1456, 1462 (9th Cir. 1995) (quoting Scarborough v. United States, 431 U.S. 563, 575, 97 S.Ct. 1963, 52 L.Ed.2d 582 (1977)); see also United States v. Casterline, 103 F.3d 76, 77 (9th Cir. 1996). Nothing in the Supreme Court’s recent Commerce Clause jurisprudence undermines Hanna. United States v. Rousseau, 257 F.3d 925, 932 (9th Cir. 2001); United States v. Davis, 242 F.3d 1162 (9th Cir. 2001).
Loggins also contends that § 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional as applied to him. This argument is foreclosed by our decision in United States v. Rousseau, 257 F.3d at 932-33.
Loggins finally contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the district court’s finding that the subject gun moved in interstate commerce because he received the gun in a private non-commercial manner. The evidence that the serial number on the gun matched the serial number on the Texas invoice is sufficient to support the verdict. See United States v. Polanco, 93 F.3d 555, 563 (9th Cir. 1996); Hanna, 55 F.3d at 1462.
AFFIRMED.
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