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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 504 U.S. 505 - United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co. · 1992Most cited · 387 citing opinions

a weapon designed or redesigned, made or remade, and intended to be fired from the shoulder and designed or redesigned and made or remade to use the energy of the explosive in a fixed cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire a fixed cartridge." § 5845(c).

How often courts cite the case defining “rifle”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “rifle” — 385 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.