Can a defendant be prosecuted for each weapon used during the commission of a drug trafficking offence?

The government, however, rejects these authorities and relies instead on United States v. Freisinger, 937 F.2d 383 (8th Cir.1991), to support its plain-language reading of the statute which, the government contends, would permit multiple 924(c)(1) prosecutions. In Freisinger, the eighth circuit reasoned that "a statute which prefaces the object of the offense by the word 'a' is not ambiguous", id. at 389, and thus concluded that a defendant could be prosecuted for each weapon used during the commission of a single drug-trafficking offense. We disagree.