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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark Stephen CARRON, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 10-15021
    Non-Argument Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
    June 14, 2011.
    Karin B. Hoppmann, Stacie B. Harris, Robert E. O’Neill, David Paul Rhodes, Josephine W. Thomas, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Sheryl Joyce Lowenthal, Attorney at Law, Miami, FL, for Defendanb-Appellant.
    Before PRYOR, MARTIN and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Mark Stephen Carrón appeals his sentence of 96 months of imprisonment for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). Carrón argues that his sentence is unreasonable. We affirm.

Carron’s sentence is reasonable. Carrón was convicted previously of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and, as the district court found, received a “tremendous break” by being sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment and 24 months of supervised release. Four months after he completed that sentence, police officers found Carrón in possession of burglary tools, tactical vests and equipment, and “some very serious weapons,” including four semi-automatic handguns, a pipe bomb, and seven improvised explosive devices. The district court reasonably determined that the guideline range of 70 to 87 months of imprisonment failed to address adequately Carron’s decision to “do the same thing” on a “more egregious scale,” and that an upward variance was necessary to address the seriousness of Carron’s offense, his disregard for the law, and his recidivism, and to provide a just punishment and protect the public. 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a). The district court did not abuse its discretion by sentencing Carrón to a term of imprisonment nine months above the top of the guideline range and well below the statutory maximum term of 120 months of imprisonment.

Carron’s sentence is AFFIRMED.