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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§9652 Rifles and Ammunition for Target Practice: Educational Institutions Having Corps of Cadets

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle D— Air Force and Space Force › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter 971— ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 9652

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Air Force can lend, at no cost to the United States, magazine rifles and parts that are not current service models and are not needed as reserve stock to schools with a uniformed cadet corps big enough for target practice. He can also supply 40 rounds per cadet for each range they use, but no more than 120 rounds per cadet each year. Schools must use the guns only for target practice, take care of them, and return them when asked. The Secretary must make rules to carry out and protect U.S. interests.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §9652

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(a)The Secretary of the Air Force 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.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 9652(a)9652(b) 9652(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”.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 9652

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60