PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the issue whether a defendant's statement that "I have a gun" during the commission of a bank robbery constitutes a "threat of death," thus warranting a two-level increase in the offense level pursuant to U.S. Sentencing Guideline § 2B3.1(b)(2)(F). We have not addressed this issue since the amendment of the guideline in November 1997 removed a requirement that the threat of death be "express." We now...
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