Uniform Machine Gun Act

The Uniform Machine Gun Act governs the possession, transfer, and use of machine guns. It makes using a machine gun in a crime of violence or for an aggressive purpose a criminal offense, defines what counts as an aggressive purpose, and treats the presence of such a weapon in specified circumstances as prima facie evidence of its unlawful use. Alongside those prohibitions it sets up a regulatory scheme — registration of machine guns, registers of stock that manufacturers and dealers must keep open to inspection, and a procedure for obtaining search warrants — while exempting certain persons, weapons, and uses from its reach.

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