Machine gun

Machine gun

A firearm that may be discharged successively without interruption by a single actuation of its triggering device until its ammunition supply is exhausted or until it is deliberately stopped by its operator. The possession, transfer, use, and transportation of automatic firearms have been tightly controlled under federal law since 1934.

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