Opinion ID: 200042
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Wholly passive conduct

Text: 14 Denis argues that, once Congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9), [he] had committed a criminal offense by taking no action at all. We disagree. As the Ninth Circuit explained in United States v. Hancock, possession of firearms is `active' conduct, as distinct from the `wholly passive' failure to register that was at issue in Lambert.  231 F.3d 557, 564 (9th Cir. 2000); see also United States v. Allen, 699 F.2d 453, 458 (9th Cir.1982) (concluding that statute prohibiting possession of a firearm by one previously convicted of a felony does not involve merely passive conduct: to violate the law one must knowingly possess a firearm). 15