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of such service, due to a service-connected disability, 
as determined by such agency; 
‘‘(4) during the most recent 12-month period, 
has met, at the expense of the individual, the stand-
ards for qualification in firearms training for active 
law enforcement officers, as determined by the 
former agency of the individual, the State in which 
the individual resides or, if the State has not estab-
lished such standards, either a law enforcement 
agency within the State in which the individual re-
sides or the standards used by a certified firearms 
instructor that is qualified to conduct a firearms 
qualification test for active duty officers within that 
State; 
‘‘(5)(A) has not been officially found by a quali-
fied medical professional employed by the agency to 
be unqualified for reasons relating to mental health 
and as a result of this finding will not be issued the 
photographic identification as described in sub-
section (d)(1); or 
‘‘(B) has not entered into an agreement with 
the agency from which the individual is separating 
from service in which that individual acknowledges 
he or she is not qualified under this section for rea-
sons relating to mental health and for those reasons 
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will not receive or accept the photographic identifica-
tion as described in subsection (d)(1); 
‘‘(6) is not under the influence of alcohol or an-
other intoxicating or hallucinatory drug or sub-
stance; and 
‘‘(7) is not prohibited by Federal law from re-
ceiving a firearm. 
‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION.—The identification required 
by this subsection is— 
‘‘(1) a photographic identification issued by the 
agency from which the individual separated from 
service as a law enforcement officer that identifies 
the person as having been employed as a police offi-
cer or law enforcement officer and indicates that the 
individual has, not less recently than one year before 
the date the individual is carrying the concealed fire-
arm, been tested or otherwise found by the agency 
to meet the active duty standards for qualification in 
firearms training as established by the agency to 
carry a firearm of the same type as the concealed 
firearm; or 
‘‘(2)(A) a photographic identification issued by 
the agency from which the individual separated from 
service as a law enforcement officer that identifies 
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the person as having been employed as a police offi-
cer or law enforcement officer; and 
‘‘(B) a certification issued by the State in which 
the individual resides or by a certified firearms in-
structor that is qualified to conduct a firearms quali-
fication test for active duty officers within that State 
that indicates that the individual has, not less than 
1 year before the date the individual is carrying the 
concealed firearm, been tested or otherwise found by 
the State or a certified firearms instructor that is 
qualified to conduct a firearms qualification test for 
active duty officers within that State to have met— 
‘‘(i) the active duty standards for qualifica-
tion in firearms training, as established by the 
State, to carry a firearm of the same type as 
the concealed firearm; or 
‘‘(ii) if the State has not established such 
standards, standards set by any law enforce-
ment agency within that State to carry a fire-
arm of the same type as the concealed firearm. 
‘‘(d) ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS.—As used in this 
section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘firearm’— 
‘‘(A) except as provided in this paragraph, 
has the same meaning as in section 581; 
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‘‘(B) includes ammunition not expressly 
prohibited by Federal law or subject to the Na-
tional Firearms Act; and 
‘‘(C) does not include— 
‘‘(i) any machinegun; 
‘‘(ii) any firearm silencer; and 
‘‘(iii) any destructive device; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘service with a public agency as 
a law enforcement officer’ includes service as a law 
enforcement officer of the Amtrak Police Depart-
ment, service as a law enforcement officer of the 
Federal Reserve, or service as a law enforcement or 
police officer of the executive branch of the Federal 
Government. 
‘‘§ 591. Use of restricted ammunition 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—(1) Whoever, during and in relation 
to the commission of a crime of violence or drug traf-
ficking crime (including a crime of violence or drug traf-
ficking crime which provides for an enhanced punishment 
if committed by the use of a deadly or dangerous weapon 
or device) for which he may be prosecuted in a court of 
the United States, uses or carries a firearm and is in pos-
session of armor piercing ammunition capable of being 
fired in that firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment 
provided for the commission of such crime of violence or 
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drug trafficking crime be sentenced to a term of imprison-
ment for not less than five years. 
‘‘(2) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this subsection, 
the term ‘drug trafficking crime’ means any felony punish-
able under chapter 17 of this title or chapter 705 of title 
46. 
‘‘(b) 
LIMITATION
ON
CERTAIN
ACTIONS
BY 
COURT.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
court shall not suspend the sentence of any person con-
victed of a violation of this section, nor place the person 
on probation, nor shall the terms of imprisonment run 
concurrently with any other terms of imprisonment, in-
cluding that imposed for the crime in which the armor 
piercing ammunition was used or possessed. 
‘‘§ 592. Possession of firearms and dangerous weap-
ons in Federal facilities 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(d), whoever knowingly possesses or causes to be present 
a firearm or other dangerous weapon in a Federal facility 
(other than a Federal court facility), or attempts to do 
so, shall be imprisoned not more than 1 year. 
‘‘(b) AGGRAVATED OFFENSE.—Whoever, with intent 
that a firearm or other dangerous weapon be used in the 
commission of a crime, knowingly possesses or causes to 
be present such firearm or dangerous weapon in a Federal 
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facility, or attempts to do so, shall be imprisoned not more 
than 5 years. 
‘‘(c) WHERE KILLING RESULTS.—A person who kills 
any person in the course of a violation of subsection (a) 
or (b), or in the course of an attack on a Federal facility 
involving the use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon 
shall be punished as provided in subchapter A of chapter 
10. 
‘‘(d) Subsection (a) does not apply to— 
‘‘(1) the lawful performance of official duties by 
an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, 
a State, or a political subdivision thereof, who is au-
thorized by law to engage in or supervise the preven-
tion, detection, investigation, or prosecution of any 
violation of law; 
‘‘(2) the possession of a firearm or other dan-
gerous weapon by a Federal official or a member of 
the Armed Forces if such possession is authorized by 
law; or 
‘‘(3) the lawful carrying of firearms or other 
dangerous weapons in a Federal facility incident to 
hunting or other lawful purposes. 
‘‘(e) COURT FACILITY.—(1) Except as provided in 
paragraph (2), whoever knowingly possesses or causes to 
be present a firearm in a Federal court facility, or at-
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tempts to do so, shall be imprisoned not more than 2 
years. 
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to conduct which 
is described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (d). 
‘‘(f) DISCLAIMER.—Nothing in this section limits the 
power of a court of the United States to punish for con-
tempt or to promulgate rules or orders regulating, restrict-
ing, or prohibiting the possession of weapons within any 
building housing such court or any of its proceedings, or 
upon any grounds appurtenant to such building. 
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘Federal facility’ means a build-
ing or part thereof owned or leased by the Federal 
Government, where Federal employees are regularly 
present for the purpose of performing their official 
duties. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘dangerous weapon’ means a 
weapon, device, instrument, material, or substance, 
animate or inanimate, that is used for, or is readily 
capable of, causing death or serious bodily injury, 
except that such term does not include a pocket 
knife with a blade of less than 21⁄2 inches in length. 
‘‘(3) The term ‘Federal court facility’ means 
the courtroom, judges’ chambers, witness rooms, 
jury deliberation rooms, attorney conference rooms, 
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prisoner holding cells, offices of the court clerks, the 
United States attorney, and the United States mar-
shal, probation and parole offices, and adjoining cor-
ridors of any court of the United States. 
‘‘(h) POSTING.—Notice of the provisions of sub-
sections (a) and (b) shall be posted conspicuously at each 
public entrance to each Federal facility, and notice of sub-
section (e) shall be posted conspicuously at each public 
entrance to each Federal court facility, and no person 
shall be convicted of an offense under subsection (a) or 
(e) with respect to a Federal facility if such notice is not 
so posted at such facility, unless such person had actual 
notice of subsection (a) or (e), as the case may be. 
‘‘§ 593. Prohibition on purchase, ownership, or pos-
session of body armor by violent felons 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), it shall be unlawful for a person to purchase, own, 
or possess body armor, if that person has been convicted 
of a felony that is— 
‘‘(1) a crime of violence; or 
‘‘(2) an offense under State law that would con-
stitute a crime of violence under paragraph (1) if it 
occurred within the special maritime and territorial 
jurisdiction of the United States. 
‘‘(b) AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE.— 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be an affirmative 
defense under this section that— 
‘‘(A) the defendant obtained prior written 
certification from his or her employer that the 
defendant’s purchase, use, or possession of body 
armor was necessary for the safe performance 
of lawful business activity; and 
‘‘(B) the use and possession by the defend-
ant were limited to the course of such perform-
ance. 
‘‘(2) EMPLOYER.—In this subsection, the term 
‘employer’ means any other individual employed by 
the defendant’s business that supervises defendant’s 
activity. If that defendant has no supervisor, prior 
written certification is acceptable from any other 
employee of the business. 
‘‘SUBCHAPTER C—EXPLOSIVES 
‘‘601. Prohibited transactions involving nuclear materials. 
‘‘§ 601. Prohibited transactions involving nuclear ma-
terials 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, if one of the cir-
cumstances described in subsection (c) of this section oc-
curs— 
‘‘(1) without lawful authority, intentionally re-
ceives, possesses, uses, transfers, alters, disposes of, 
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or disperses any nuclear material or nuclear byprod-
uct material and— 
‘‘(A) thereby knowingly causes the death of 
or serious bodily injury to any person or sub-
stantial damage to property or to the environ-
ment; or 
‘‘(B) circumstances exist, or have been rep-
resented to the defendant to exist, that are like-
ly to cause the death or serious bodily injury to 
any person, or substantial damage to property 
or to the environment; 
‘‘(2) with intent to deprive another of nuclear 
material or nuclear byproduct material, knowingly— 
‘‘(A) takes and carries away nuclear mate-
rial or nuclear byproduct material of another 
without authority; 
‘‘(B) makes an unauthorized use, disposi-
tion, or transfer, of nuclear material or nuclear 
byproduct material belonging to another; or 
‘‘(C) uses fraud and thereby obtains nu-
clear material or nuclear byproduct material be-
longing to another; 
‘‘(3) knowingly— 
‘‘(A) uses force; or 
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‘‘(B) threatens or places another in fear 
that any person other than the actor will immi-
nently be subject to bodily injury; 
and thereby takes nuclear material or nuclear by-
product material belonging to another from the per-
son or presence of any other; 
‘‘(4) intentionally intimidates any person and 
thereby obtains nuclear material or nuclear byprod-
uct material belonging to another; 
‘‘(5) with intent to compel any person, inter-
national organization, or governmental entity to do 
or refrain from doing any act, knowingly threatens 
to engage in conduct described in paragraph (2)(A) 
or (3) of this subsection; 
‘‘(6) knowingly threatens to use nuclear mate-
rial or nuclear byproduct material to cause death or 
serious bodily injury to any person or substantial 
damage to property or to the environment under cir-
cumstances in which the threat may reasonably be 
understood as an expression of serious purposes; 
‘‘(7) attempts to commit an offense under para-
graph (1), (2), (3), or (4) of this subsection; or 
‘‘(8) is a party to a conspiracy of two or more 
persons to commit an offense under paragraph (1), 
(2), (3), or (4) of this subsection, if any of the par-
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ties intentionally engages in any conduct in further-
ance of such offense; 
shall be punished as provided in subsection (b) of this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(b) PUNISHMENT.—The punishment for an offense 
under— 
‘‘(1) paragraphs (1) through (7) of subsection 
(a) of this section is— 
‘‘(A) a fine under this title; and 
‘‘(B) imprisonment— 
‘‘(i) for any term of years or for life 
(I) if, while committing the offense, the of-
fender knowingly causes the death of any 
person; or (II) if, while committing an of-
fense under paragraph (1) or (3) of sub-
section (a) of this section, the offender, 
under circumstances manifesting extreme 
indifference to the life of an individual, 
knowingly engages in any conduct and 
thereby recklessly causes the death of or 
serious bodily injury to any person; and 
‘‘(ii) for not more than 20 years in 
any other case; and 
‘‘(2) paragraph (8) of subsection (a) of this sec-
tion is— 
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‘‘(4) the term ‘false identification document’ 
means a document of a type intended or commonly 
accepted for the purposes of identification of individ-
uals that— 
‘‘(A) is not issued by or under the author-
ity of a governmental entity or was issued 
under the authority of a governmental entity 
but was subsequently altered for purposes of 
deceit; and 
‘‘(B) appears to be issued by or under the 
authority of the United States Government, a 
State, a political subdivision of a State, or a 
sponsoring entity of an event designated as a 
special event of national significance, a foreign 
government, a political subdivision of a foreign 
government, or an international governmental 
or quasi-governmental organization; 
‘‘(5) the term ‘false authentication feature’ 
means an authentication feature that— 
‘‘(A) is genuine in origin, but, without the 
authorization of the issuing authority, has been 
tampered with or altered for purposes of deceit; 
‘‘(B) is genuine, but has been distributed, 
or is intended for distribution, without the au-
thorization of the issuing authority and not in 
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