18.2-306 - Search warrants for "sawed-off" shotguns and rifles; confiscation and destruction. - Virginia Statutes

§ 18.2-306. Search warrants for "sawed-off" shotguns and rifles;confiscation and destruction.

Warrant to search any house or place and seize any "sawed-off" shotgun or"sawed-off" rifle possessed in violation of this article may issue in thesame manner and under the same restrictions as provided by law for stolenproperty, and any court of record, upon application of the attorney for theCommonwealth, a police officer or conservator of the peace, may order any"sawed-off" shotgun or "sawed-off" rifle thus or otherwise legallyseized, to be confiscated and either destroyed or delivered to a peaceofficer of the Commonwealth or a political subdivision thereof.

(Code 1950, § 18.1-268.8; 1968, c. 661; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1992, c. 580.)