willing to use force, as evidenced by his aggravated robbery conviction and his arrest for discharging a weapon into a home or school. Moreover, Williams was a suspected dealer of crack cocaine and, as Detective Daniel testified at the motion to suppress hearing, in Daniel’s experience “the majority of people who traffic, especially in cocaine, own a gun or have a gun ... at their ready.” We have often recognized the propensity of drug traffickers to carry firearms. See United States v. Till, 434 F.3d 880, 884 (6th Cir.2006) (affirming district court’s evidentiary ruling that drugs found in possession of the defendant constituted relevant evidence “because of the propensity of people involved with drugs to carry weapons”); United States v. Swafford, 385 F.3d 1026, 1030 (6th Cir. 2004) (<HOLDING>); see also United States v. Estrada, 430 F.3d
holding that a city which brought an action for forfeiture of firearms recovered from a drug suspects residence was collaterally estopped from introducing evidence of drug possession thus it could not prove the firearms were used in drug transactions and could not forfeit them recognizing the connection between guns and drug trafficking holding admissible police officers testimony that firearms are commonly used in drug trafficking holding that a firearm could be used both to protect the defendants spouse and to facilitate the defendants drug trafficking crimes holding that prior drug trafficking conviction was admissible to prove intent to distribute