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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§7652 Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational institutions having corps of cadets

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— - Army › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter CHAPTER 771— - ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 7652

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army can lend certain magazine rifles and accessories to schools that have a uniformed cadet corps large enough for target practice. The rifles must not be current Army service models and must not be needed for reserve stock. The Army can also give 40 rounds of ball cartridges for each cadet for each range used, but no cadet may get more than 120 rounds in a year. Loans cost the United States nothing. Schools that get the equipment must use it only for target practice, take good care of it, and return it when the Army asks. The Secretary must write rules to run the program and add any safeguards needed to protect U.S. interests.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7652

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of the Army may lend, without expense to the United States, magazine rifles and appendages that are not of the existing service models in use at the time and that are not necessary for a proper reserve supply, to any educational institution having a uniformed corps of cadets of sufficient number for target practice. He may also issue 40 rounds of ball cartridges for each cadet for each range at which target practice is held, but not more than 120 rounds each year for each cadet participating in target practice.
(b)The institutions to which property is lent under subsection (a) shall use it for target practice, take proper care of it and return it when required.
(c)The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section, containing such other requirements as he considers necessary to safeguard the interests of the United States.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4652(a)4652(b) 4652(c)10:1185 (1st par.).10:1185 (last par., less 1st 22, and last 19, words).10:1185 (1st 22, and last 19, words of last par.).Apr. 27, 1914, ch. 72 (last proviso and last par. under “Manufacture of Arms”), 38 Stat. 370. In subsection (a), the words “and carrying on military training” and “the maintenance of” are omitted as surplusage. In clause (2), the words “suitable to said arm” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b), the words “shall use it for target practice” are substituted for the words “insuring the designed use of the property issued”. The words “take proper care of it” are substituted for the words “providing against loss to the United States through lack of proper care”.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Prior section 7651 and 7652 were renumbered section 8851 and 8852 of this title, respectively.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4652 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7652

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73