                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
            CHAPTER 232--MISCELLANEOUS SENTENCING PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3665. Firearms possessed by convicted felons

    A judgment of conviction for transporting a stolen motor vehicle in 
interstate or foreign commerce or for committing or attempting to commit 
a felony in violation of any law of the United States involving the use 
of threats, force, or violence or perpetrated in whole or in part by the 
use of firearms, may, in addition to the penalty provided by law for 
such offense, order the confiscation and disposal of firearms and 
ammunition found in the possession or under the immediate control of the 
defendant at the time of his arrest.
    The court may direct the delivery of such firearms or ammunition to 
the law-enforcement agency which apprehended such person, for its use or 
for any other disposition in its discretion.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 839, Sec. 3611; renumbered Sec. 3665, 
Pub. L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 212(a)(1), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1987.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 645 (June 13, 1939, ch. 
197, 53 Stat. 814).
    The condensation and simplification of this section clarifies its 
intent to confiscate the firearms taken from persons convicted of crimes 
of violence without any real change of substance.
