Firearm object

Coverage and quality

4 annotation blocks; 0 merits instance blocks; 0 distinct cases with counted merits instances; 4 excluded blocks.

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Counting rules and source integrity

Counted instances require applied citation role, merits scope, and a reached holding. Procedural, not-reached, comparator, and other context remains visible but is excluded from counts.

Source hash and exact-offset checks verify quotation integrity only; they do not establish legal correctness, model confidence, exhaustive coverage, or approval. Zero means no counted annotation in this snapshot.

Database snapshot SHA-256: b8882353247abdd6e20d4e22922c166d68ccb8e2da50e13e0162a35c316318f8. 3301 source quotations verified across this snapshot.

AND · 18usc924:firearm

Exact element source

uses or carries a firearm

Source: docroot/ir/usc/title18.jsonl#title18_sec924; Unicode character offsets [4633:4658] (end exclusive); SHA-256 899fad466e76614e7f7b0bb794089010ef0af034312bcd194c76394228dbfdc4.

All variants

Recorded DB variant labels, including zero-count variants
Variant	Description	Merits instance blocks	Distinct cases	Example cases (up to 3 per group)
Unspecified variant	No variant assigned in the database.	0 Satisfied 0; not satisfied 0; excluded context 4	0	No counted merits examples Excluded context examples: /f2d/890/1363-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989 — applied/merits; /f3d/116/1353-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1997 — applied/merits; /f3d/319/0177-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003 — applied/merits

How courts decided this element

Annotation blocks, including explicitly excluded context
Case	Element	Holding and scope	Variant	Exact source quotations
/f2d/890/1363-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989	Firearm object	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits claim: (c)(1) A loaded blue steel revolver; its status as a firearm was not contested.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/116/1353-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1997	Firearm object	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits claim: (c)(1) A revolver; not contested.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/319/0177-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003	Firearm object	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits claim: (c)(1) Not contested; the accomplice Medina's testimony was the only evidence besides the victim's that a firearm was used (mentioned only in the obstruction-enhancement discussion).	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.
/f3d/640/0412-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2011	Firearm object	not_reached Excluded from merits counts applied / merits claim: (c)(1)(A) A Glock .40 pistol capable of automatic fire; firearm status not contested and the machinegun penalty tier is not discussed.	Unspecified variant	No source quotation recorded for this block.

Court interpretations