Volume 49 · 1192
Public Law 74–169
To exempt certain small firearms from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.
Approved April 10, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To exempt certain small firearms from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a) of section 1 of the National Firearms Act relating to the definition of “firearms” is amended by inserting after “definition” a comma and the following: “but does not include any rifle which is within the foregoing provisions solely by reason of the length of its barrel if the caliber of such rifle is .22 or smaller and if its barrel is sixteen inches or more in length”.
Approved, April 10, 1936.