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NEW YORK — Federal judges can give harsher penalties to those who help bring illegal guns to big cities, a federal appeals court decided Thursday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals approved the practice in its ruling in the case of an illegal gun dealer who got two years in prison, which was six months more than federal sentencing guidelines advise.
When he imposed the sentence in 2004, U.S. District Judge Charles Sifton in Brooklyn said there was a “crying need” to deter gun trafficking into large metro areas.
A three-judge appeals panel initially had overturned Sif ton’s ruling. The judges then reheard the case and ruled in Sifton’s favor Thursday.
