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rifle

Defined in 4 places across 4 titles of the United States Code.

In this section, the term “rifle” has the meaning given such term in section 921 of title 18.

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  • 2026–present36 U.S.C. § 40728BPatriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations · Recovery of excess rifles, ammunition, and parts granted to foreign countries and transfer to certain persons · in this section

In this section, the terms “handgun”, “rifle”, “shotgun”, “firearm”, “ammunition”, “machinegun”, “short-barreled shotgun”, and “short-barreled rifle” have the meanings given the terms in section 921(a) of title 18.

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Rifle Defined.—In this section, the term "rifle" has the meaning given such term in section 921 of title 18.

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  • 2016–202636 U.S.C. § 40728BPatriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations · Recovery of excess rifles, ammunition, and parts granted to foreign countries and transfer to certain persons · in this section

The term “rifle” means 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 an explosive to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

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The term “rifle” means 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.

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The term “rifle” means 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 metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.

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