Court Opinion

ID: 9689519
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:37:56.065174+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:15:53.987878
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Opinion by
Justice VENTERS.
I concur with Justice Abramson’s opinion, and add that, in my view, the operability of the firearm is not an element of the offense of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The definition of “firearm” in KRS 527.010(4) serves to identify the class of weapons included in that offense as those which expel a projectile by the action of an explosive, i.e. gunpowder, as opposed to weapons such as air rifles, cross-bows, slingshots, or spear guns that expel a projectile by some other means.
NOBLE and SCHRODER, JJ., joins.