Does section 654 of the California Criminal Code prohibit multiple punishment for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of ammunition by a felon?

In People v. Lopez (2004) 119 Cal.App.4th 132, the court held that section 654 precluded multiple punishment for possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of ammunition by a felon. In that case, the only ammunition that the defendant possessed was inside the loaded firearm. The Lopez court determined that "[t]o allow multiple punishment for possessing ammunition in a firearm would, in our judgment, parse the objectives too finely." (Id. at p. 138.) "Where, as here, all of the ammunition is loaded into the firearm, an 'indivisible course of conduct' is present and section 654 precludes

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