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UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee v. Larry Joseph HOLT Defendant-Appellant
    No. 16-3179
    United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
    Submitted: April 3, 2017
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Stephen R. Casey, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Sirena Miller Wissler, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S, Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellee
    Larry Joseph Holt, Pro Se
    Nanci McCarthy, Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Saint Louis, MO, for Defendant-Appellant
    Before SMITH, Chief Judge, ARNOLD and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM.

After Larry Holt pleaded guilty to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, see 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and one count of conspiring to distribute heroin, see 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), and 18 U.S.C. § 2, the district court sentenced him as an armed career criminal. See 18 U.S.C. § 924(e). He maintains on appeal that the district court erred in concluding that he is an armed career criminal because his conviction for unlawfully using a weapon under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.030.1(4) is not a “violent felony” under the Armed Career Criminal Act. Holt recognizes that our court has already determined that a conviction under this statute is a violent felony, see United States v. Pulliam, 566 F.3d 784, 788 (8th Cir. 2009), but he argues that we are not bound by Pulliam in light of intervening Supreme Court decisions. We reject Holt’s argument because another panel of our court recently determined that Pulliam is still good law despite the same authorities that Holt relies on here. See United States v. Hudson, 851 F.3d 807, 809-10 (8th Cir. 2017). The decision of a prior panel binds our panel. United States v. Eason, 829 F.3d 633, 641 (8th Cir. 2016).

Affirmed. 
      
      . The Honorable Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.