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Before LOKEN, BENTON, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.
James D. Myers pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). The district court sentenced him as an armed career criminal to 188 months' imprisonment. He appeals. Having jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, this court affirms.
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) enhances sentences for those who possess firearms after three convictions for a "violent felony or a serious drug offense." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1). The district court sentenced Myers as an armed career criminal based on one prior serious drug conviction and two prior violent felonies under Arkansas law-first-degree terroristic threatening and second-degree battery. Myers appeals, arguing neither one is a violent felony. This court reviews de novo the determination that a conviction is a violent felony under the ACCA. See United States v. Keith, 638 F.3d 851, 852 (8th Cir. 2011).
Ark. Code Ann. § 5-13-301(a)(1)(A) (1995). Myers argues this section is "overbroad" because it "criminalizes the making of threats to cause 'substantial property damage' in addition to threats 'to cause death or serious physical injury, '" and "does not . . . necessarily involve an element of physical force against the person of another."
A violent felony under the ACCA is "any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year . . . that-(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(2)(B). To determine whether a prior conviction is a violent felony, courts apply a categorical approach, comparing "the elements of the crime of conviction . . . with the elements of the generic crime." Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254, 257 (2013). If the elements criminalize a broader range of conduct than the generic crime, the conviction is not a violent felony. Id. ("The prior conviction qualifies as an ACCA predicate only if the statute's elements are the same as, or narrower than, those of the generic offense."). However, "[i]f the statute of conviction defines more than one crime by listing alternative elements," this court applies the "modified categorical approach, to determine which of the alternatives was the offense of conviction." United States v. Winston, 845 F.3d 876, 877 (8th Cir. 2017) (internal quotation marks omitted).

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