context: We note that this case does not require us to decide whether the possession of a pipe bomb, silencer, sawed off shotgun, or other instrumentality that is generally associated with violence and has little socially useful value constitutes a predicate offense.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 846 F. Supp. 181, 184
citation_a.parenthetical: silencer and pipe bomb inherently dangerous weapons for which there is no peaceful use, and thus, their possession is predicate offense under Federal pretrial detention statute
citation_a.sentence: See United States v. Dodge, 846 F. Supp. 181, 184 (D. Conn. 1994) (silencer and pipe bomb inherently dangerous weapons for which there is no peaceful use, and thus, their possession is predicate offense under Federal pretrial detention statute).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 252 F.3d 905, 907
citation_b.parenthetical: "Some firearms, it is true -- for- example sawed-off shotguns -- have no significant lawful use, and so their possession by felons may well constitute a crime of violence . . ."
citation_b.sentence: See also United States v. Lane, 252 F.3d 905, 907 (7th Cir. 2001) (“Some firearms, it is true — for- example sawed-off shotguns — have no significant lawful use, and so their possession by felons may well constitute a crime of violence . . .”). Cf. Cepulonis v. Commonwealth, 384 Mass. 495, 497-498 (1981), appeal dismissed, 455 U.S. 931 (1982) (sentence of from forty to fifty years for unlawful possession of machine gun not unconstitutionally disproportionate because Legislature could infer from “common knowledge that the unlicensed possession of machine guns is almost always associated with the commission of violent crimes with the potential for mass killing”).