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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part II · Chapter 232 — Miscellaneous Sentencing Provisions

§ 3665. Firearms possessed by convicted felons

Statutory text

A judgment of conviction for transporting a stolen motor vehicle in interstate or foreign commerce or for committing or attempting to commit a felony in violation of any law of the United States involving the use of threats, force, or violence or perpetrated in whole or in part by the use of firearms, may, in addition to the penalty provided by law for such offense, order the confiscation and disposal of firearms and ammunition found in the possession or under the immediate control of the defendant at the time of his arrest.

The court may direct the delivery of such firearms or ammunition to the law-enforcement agency which apprehended such person, for its use or for any other disposition in its discretion.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683

    Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 3665

    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 839, § 3611

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 839, § 3611

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Notes

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 645 (June 13, 1939, ch. 197, 53 Stat. 814).

The condensation and simplification of this section clarifies its intent to confiscate the firearms taken from persons convicted of crimes of violence without any real change of substance.

Credits

1948–1984 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 839, § 3611
  2. 1984renumbered § 3665, Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(1), , 98 Stat. 1987.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 839, § 3611; renumbered § 3665, Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(1), , 98 Stat. 1987.)

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