Loggins
United States v. Loggins
Opinion
Lead Opinion
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 *706 “in or affecting commerce” element of 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(1). The district court found that the gun was sold by its Texas manufacturer to a distributor in California in 1966.
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).