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Bartering drugs for guns ruled use of firearms

A narcotics dealer who bartered heroin for guns "used" firearms in a drug-trafficking crime, making him eligible for a mandatory five-year sentence under federal law, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found.The defendant argued that because he did not actively employ a firearm, he did not use it within the meaning of the ...

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