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Hughes Amendment

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-002478

A provision of the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 that effectively banned the sale of newly manufactured machine guns to civilians in the United States. This amendment restricts the transfer of machine guns to those legally registered before May 19, 1986. It significantly impacted the availability of automatic firearms for private ownership.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-002478
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "A provision of the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986 that effectively banned the sale of newly manufactured machine guns to civilians in the United States. This amendment restricts the transfer of machine guns to those legally registered before May 19, 1986. It significantly impacted the availability of automatic firearms for private ownership.",
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