Criminal – Court creates circuit split over sentencing enhancement
Sep 07, 2026
Where the district court imposed a sentencing enhancement because two out of three serial numbers on the recovered firearm had been modified, such that only one digit of the seven-digit serial number was visible to the unaided eye, it erred. The enhancement only applies where the modification of a f
irearm’s serial numbers renders it fully untraceable. When only one iteration of a serial number is modified on a weapon, but two other serial numbers remain unaltered, that weapon is clearly traceable.
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