                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 44--FIREARMS
 
Sec. 927. Effect on State law

    No provision of this chapter shall be construed as indicating an 
intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which such 
provision operates to the exclusion of the law of any State on the same 
subject matter, unless there is a direct and positive conflict between 
such provision and the law of the State so that the two cannot be 
reconciled or consistently stand together.

(Added Pub. L. 90-351, title IV, Sec. 902, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 234; 
amended Pub. L. 90-618, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 
1226.)


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-618 struck out ``or possession'' after ``State'' 
wherever appearing.


                    Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-618 effective Dec. 16, 1968, see section 105 
of Pub. L. 90-618, set out as a note under section 921 of this title.
