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072514P.pdf   08/13/2008  United States  v.  Hollis Fincher
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2514
                          and No:  07-2888
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fayetteville   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Bowman and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - criminal law. District court's determination that defendant's militia group, the Washington County Militia, was not affiliated with the state militia and therefore not subject to the protections of Second Amendment was well supported by the record; since machine guns are not weapons typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes, the Supreme Court's recent decision in Heller does not protect defendant's possession of machine guns; matter remanded to the district court for further proceedings on the question of whether defendant qualified as a pauper or should be required to repay the costs of his court-appointed counsel.