Opinion ID: 203873
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Heading: The Firearms Enhancement

Text: We find no merit in Flores-de-Jesús's other challenge to his sentence. In order to justify an enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1), the government must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that it was reasonably foreseeable that a co-conspirator would possess a gun in furtherance of the criminal activity. Casas, 356 F.3d at 129. The evidence presented at trial included a photograph and a video of Flores-de-Jesús with co-conspirators holding weapons, a video of Flores-de-Jesús himself loading a magazine with a bullet, and Medina's testimony that he, like other co-conspirators, would consistently carry firearms at the drug point in order to protect it, and that all three appellants had seen at least Medina with a weapon. This evidence is more than sufficient to sustain the imposition of the § 2D1.1(b)(1) enhancement. We therefore find no error in the application of the firearm enhancement.