Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-288

Definitions

Known as the Uniform Machine Gun Act

The act spans §§ 18–18 (12 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Delgado-Hernandez v. Holder (2012)

Most recently applied in Virginia Duncan v. Rob Bonta (March 2025)

Code 1950, § 18.1-258; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.

How often courts cite this section

citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

When used in this article:

(1) "Machine gun" applies to any weapon which shoots or is designed to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.

(2) "Crime of violence" applies to and includes any of the following crimes or an attempt to commit any of the same, namely, murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, mayhem, assault with intent to maim, disable, disfigure or kill, robbery, burglary, housebreaking, breaking and entering and larceny.

(3) "Person" applies to and includes firm, partnership, association or corporation.

Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.