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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.