United States Court of Appeals
                            FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                   No. 06-3456
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United States of America,               *
                                        *
             Appellee,                  *
                                        * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                * District Court for the
                                        * District of Nebraska.
Marvin F. Baker,                        *
                                        *      [UNPUBLISHED]
             Appellant.                 *
                                   ___________

                             Submitted: June 21, 2007
                                Filed: June 26, 2007
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Before RILEY, MAGILL, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.
                            ___________

PER CURIAM.

       In this direct criminal appeal of his 33-month prison sentence for possessing a
firearm with an obliterated serial number, Marvin F. Baker (Baker) challenges his
sentence as unreasonable under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) for failure to give appropriate
weight to mitigating factors in his criminal history, such as his age, and for making
a clear error in judgment when balancing the § 3553(a) factors.
        Upon careful review of the record, we conclude the district court1 did not abuse
its discretion in sentencing Baker to 33 months’ imprisonment. See United States v.
Haack, 

, 1003 (8th Cir.) (standard of review), cert. denied, 

(2005). We afford a presumption of reasonableness to the district court’s sentence,
which fell at the bottom of the advisory Sentencing Guidelines range. See Rita v.
United States, No. 06-5754, 

, at *__ (U.S. June 21, 2007)
(affirming the application of a presumption of reasonableness by a court of appeals
to a district court’s sentence that reflects a proper application of the Sentencing
Guidelines); United States v. Likens, 

, 825 (8th Cir. 2006) (“The
guideline range, though advisory, is presumed to be reasonable.” (citation omitted)).
The district court appropriately weighed Baker’s youth and relatively minor past
crimes against other § 3553(a) factors, such as the need for a significant prison
sentence to halt Baker’s pattern of criminal conduct and the need for a sentence long
enough to provide Baker with meaningful rehabilitation and training. See 18 U.S.C.
§ 3553(a)(1) (history and characteristics of defendant), (a)(2)(B) (afford adequate
deterrence), and (a)(2)(D) (provide defendant with needed educational or vocational
training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in most effective manner);
United States v. Swehla, 

, 1145-47 (8th Cir. 2006) (upholding sentence
and finding criminal history not overstated where the defendant committed many
crimes from ages 15 to 18).

      Therefore, we affirm.
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      1
        The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, United States District Judge for the
District of Nebraska.

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