18.2-296 - Search warrants for machine guns. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-296. Search warrants for machine guns.

Warrant to search any house or place and seize any machine gun possessed inviolation of this article may issue in the same manner and under the samerestrictions as provided by law for stolen property, and any court of record,upon application of the attorney for the Commonwealth, a police officer orconservator of the peace, may order any machine gun, thus or otherwiselegally seized, to be confiscated and either destroyed or delivered to apeace officer of the Commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-266; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)