128, 133, 707 S.E.2d 664, 669, cert. denied, 365 N.C. 189, 707 S.E.2d 242 (2011) (quotation omitted). For example, in cases of possession of a firearm by a felon, this Court has held that a “defendant should be convicted and sentenced only once for possession of a firearm by a felon based on his simultaneous possession of [multiple] firearms].]” State v. Garris, 191 N.C. App. 276, 285, 663 S.E.2d 340, 348, disc, review denied, 362 N.C. 684, 670 S.E.2d 907 (2008); see also State v. Whitaker, 201 N.C. App. 190, 207-08, 689 S.E.2d 395, 405-06 (2009), aff'd, 364 N.C. 404, 700 S.E.2d 215 (2010) (reversing ten of eleven convictions for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon where defendant possessed all eleven firearms simultaneously); compare Smith, 323 N.C. at 443, 373 S.E.2d at 438 (<HOLDING>). This is because “the applicable . . . statute
holding that the state may charge a defendant with only one count of disseminating obscenity for each separate transaction even though several obscene magazines were disseminated during each transaction holding that a single transaction involving multiple obscene materials constitutes but one offense holding that a single claimants stipulations and prioritization of her multiple claims created a single claim situation holding that killing more than one person in a single automobile accident justified multiple homicide convictions holding that sale of two obscene magazines to one detective in one transaction and sale of two obscene films to another detective in another transaction could result in only one conviction for each separate transaction