FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:
Hoa Cam Lam pled guilty to the offense of being in possession of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun. 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d). He was sentenced in a proceeding where the district judge said that he would depart if he could but lacked the discretion to do so. Lam appealed and we now vacate the sentence and remand.
BACKGROUND
Lam is the oldest son of a Vietnamese family that, amid great travail and sorrow, immigrated to this...
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