Court Opinion

ID: 9842127
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 20:12:48.102197+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:08:12.167487
License: Public Domain

Justice Blackmun,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion in full because I understand the discussion in Part II-B not to foreclose the possibility that the “in relation to” language of 18 U. S. C. § 924(c)(1) requires more than mere furtherance or facilitation of a crime of violence or drug-trafficking crime. I agree with the Court that because petitioner’s use of his MAC-10 meets any reasonable construction of the phrase, it is unnecessary to determine in this case the precise contours of “in relation to” as it appears in § 924(c)(1). See ante, at 238.