Reading Room Document

Applicability of Ten-Year Minimum Sentence to Semiautomatic Assault Weapons

Semiautomatic assault weapons are no longer among the firearms to which the ten-year minimum sentence in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(B)(i) applies. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2009-11-24-semiauto/download.

November 24, 2009