We reject defendant's contention that the sentence for manslaughter cannot run consecutively to the sentence for criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. An individual in possession of an operable loaded weapon for an extended period of time may have harbored the intent to use the weapon unlawfully against another in the period of time prior to shooting someone with it (see, People v Salcedo,
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