Possession or use of "sawed-off" shotgun or rifle
Known as the Sawed-Off Shotgun and Sawed-Off Rifle Act
The act spans §§ 18–18 (9 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 70 Va. App. 307 - Dustin Scott Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia (2019)
Most recently applied in 70 Va. App. 307 - Dustin Scott Jones v. Commonwealth of Virginia (May 2019)
Code 1950, § 18.1-268.2; 1968, c. 661; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1978, c. 710; 1992, c. 580.
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.
A. Possession or use of a "sawed-off" shotgun or "sawed-off" rifle in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime of violence is a Class 2 felony.
B. Possession or use of a "sawed-off" shotgun or "sawed-off" rifle for any other purpose, except as permitted by this article and official use by those persons permitted possession by § 18.2-303, is a Class 4 felony.
Official source: Virginia Law Portal (LIS). Reproduced from public-domain Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.