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Ruben ROCHA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Rudy CHILDRESS, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 05-40983.
    Conference Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided April 11, 2006.
    Ruben Rocha, Federal Correctional Institution Beaumont, Beaumont, TX, pro se.
    Paul E. Ñaman, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont, TX, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before JONES, Chief Judge, and JOLLY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Ruben Rocha, federal prisoner # 18815-077, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition, wherein he challenged his conviction for using or carrying a firearm during commission of a crime of violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Rocha challenged his conviction based on Bailey v. United States, 516 U.S. 137, 116 S.Ct. 501, 133 L.Ed.2d 472 (1995).

Rocha argues that his challenge to the firearms offense falls within the savings clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255. “[T]he savings clause of § 2255 applies to a claim (i) that is based on a retroactively applicable Supreme Court decision which establishes that the petitioner may have been convicted of a nonexistent offense and (ii) that was foreclosed by circuit law at the time when the claim should have been raised in the petitioner’s trial, appeal, or first § 2255 motion.” Reyes-Requena v. United States, 243 F.3d 893, 904 (5th Cir.2001).

This court has already held that the evidence was sufficient to support Rocha’s conviction for carrying a firearm under § 924(c). See United States v. Rocha, 916 F.2d 219, 236-37 (5th Cir.1990). We have also held that this prior holding precludes Rocha from seeking the application of the savings clause under § 2255. See United States v. Rocha, 2002 WL 31049460 at *1 (5th Cir. Sept. 3, 2002). Rocha has not shown that he meets the first prong of the Reyes-Requena test. See Reyes-Requena, 243 F.3d at 904.

Accordingly, the district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.