Barrett v. United States · ¶22

Congress later extended this second feature—the consecutive-sentence mandate—beyond the relationship between subsection (c)'s sentence and the predicate's sentence, so that the consecutive-sentence mandate applies as between a subsection (c) sentence and “any other term of imprisonment.” § 924(c)(1)(D)(ii); see United States v. Gonzales, 520 U. S. 1, 5 (1997). Congress did not, however, expand the double-conviction mandate. That mandate still instructs only that a subsection (c)(1) conviction shall be “in addition to the punishment provided for [the underlying] crime of violence or drug trafficking crime”—that is, the predicate. § 924(c)(1)(A).

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