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Sentencing of Army reservist for gun crime causing a stir

By Douglas A. Berman

As regular readers know, the Heller case and related Second Amendment issues has me keeping a close eye on gun crime sentencing cases of note.  This new article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, headlined "Automatic gun transfer nets prison sentence," spotlights a defendant sentenced yesterday in a case that has already drawn significant media attention.  Here are excerpts: A Wisconsin man whose federal conviction for illegally transferring a machine gun drew national attention on CNN and the Internet was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison.  David R. Olofson, 36, of Berlin, who remains a member of the Army Reserve until his felony conviction becomes official, was convicted by a jury in January. Olofson, whose case has been reported several times on Lou Dobbs' show on CNN, faced up to 10 years in prison, Federal sentencing guidelines called for 27 to 33 months...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).