Court Opinion

ID: 9459966
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:36:41.128395+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:24.819737
License: Public Domain

WRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
Respectfully, I disagree and would affirm the judgment of conviction.
The statute in question was intended to prevent passengers from carrying aboard aircraft those weapons or facsim-ilies which could readily be used in acts of air piracy. The starter gun used here is just such an article. I would hold that it falls within the meaning of “deadly and dangerous weapon”, as that term is used in the statute.
I am unable to distinguish this from the weapon used in United States v. Cook, 446 F.2d 50 (9th Cir. 1971), discussed in the majority opinion.
I would affirm.