United States v. Gong Kim

FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION JAN 18 2012 MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, No. 11-30021 Plaintiff - Appellee, D.C. No. 3:10-cr-00025-HA-1 v. MEMORANDUM* GONG KIM, Defendant - Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Ancer L. Haggerty, Senior District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted January 12, 2012 Seattle, Washington Before: O’SCANNLAIN and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and MOLLOY, District Judge.** Gong Kim pled guilty to one count of exporting munitions without a license in violation of 22 U.S.C. § 2778. On appeal, Kim argues that the district court * This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The Honorable Donald W. Molloy, United States District Judge for the District of Montana, sitting by designation. should have found a base offense level of 14 because his offense “involved only non-fully automatic small arms (rifles, handguns, or shotguns), and the number of weapons did not exceed ten.” United States Sentencing Guidelines § 2M5.2(a)(2). The district court correctly found a base offense level of 26 because Kim exported gun parts, which are not “non-fully automatic small arms” within the definition of section 2M5.2(a)(2). See United States v. Carper, 659 F.3d 923, 924–25 (9th Cir. 2011). Moreover, Kim’s offense involved enough parts to service more than ten weapons. AFFIRMED. 2