Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§7652 Rifles and Ammunition for Target Practice: Educational Institutions Having Corps of Cadets
Title 10 › Subtitle B — Army › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › CHAPTER 771 — ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 7652
Summary
Army Secretary may lend, free, magazine rifles and parts that are not the current service models and not needed for reserves to schools with uniformed cadets for target practice. He may provide 40 rounds per cadet per range, up to 120 per cadet yearly. Schools must care for and return the items, and the Secretary must set rules protecting U.S. interests.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §7652
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(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
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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 7652
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102