rifle
Defined in 3 places across 3 titles of the United States Code.
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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- 2005–present42 U.S.C. § 2201AThe Public Health and Welfare · Use of firearms by security personnel · 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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- 1998–present18 U.S.C. § 921Crimes and Criminal Procedure · Definitions · as used in this chapter
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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- 1994–present26 U.S.C. § 5845Internal Revenue Code · Definitions · 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 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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- 1994–199818 U.S.C. § 921Crimes and Criminal Procedure · Definitions · as used in this chapter