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  2. Federal Assault Weapons Ban - Wikipedia

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    The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, popularly known as the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB or FAWB), was subtitle A of title XI of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as ...

  3. Assault weapon - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the term is not clearly known and is the subject of much debate. In the past, the names of certain military weapons used the phrase, such as the Rifleman's Assault Weapon, a grenade launcher developed in 1977 for use with the M16 assault rifle, [20] or the Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon, a rocket launcher introduced in 1984.

  4. Assault weapons legislation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The definition of "large capacity feeding device" included: a fixed or detachable magazine, box, drum, feed strip or similar device capable of accepting, or that can be readily converted to accept, more than 10 rounds of ammunition or more than 5 shotgun shells; or a large capacity ammunition feeding device as defined in the federal assault ...

  5. Assault rifle - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Army defines assault rifles as "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges." [18] In this strict definition, a firearm must have at least the following characteristics to be considered an assault rifle: [2] [3] [4] It must be capable of selective fire.

  6. Use of force continuum - Wikipedia

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    A firearm is the most widely recognized lethal or deadly force weapon, however, an automobile or weapon of opportunity could also be defined as a deadly force utility. [7] [9] [10] The U.S. Navy teaches a six-step model: Officer presence, Verbal commands, Soft controls, Hard controls, Intermediate Weapons, and Lethal force.

  7. National Firearms Act - Wikipedia

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    The National Firearms Act (NFA), 73rd Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 757, 48 Stat. 1236 was enacted on June 26, 1934, and currently codified and amended as I.R.C. ch. 53.The law is an Act of Congress in the United States that, in general, imposes an excise tax on the manufacture and transfer of certain firearms and mandates the registration of those firearms.

  8. Federal appeals court upholds Maryland's ban on assault-style ...

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    A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Maryland's decade-old ban on military-style firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. A majority of 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges ...

  9. Weapon System - Wikipedia

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    Weapon System was a United States Armed Forces military designation scheme for experimental weapons [2] (e.g., WS-220) before they received an official name — e.g., under a military aircraft designation system. The new designator reflected the increasing complexity of weapons that required separate development of auxiliary systems or components.