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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3u SESS.-(CH. 850 -JUNE 30, 1938 (d) It shall be unlawful for any person to ship, transport, or cause to be shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm or ammunition to any person knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such person is under indictment or has been convicted in any court of the United States, the several States, Terri- tories, possessions (including the Philippine Islands), or the District of Columbia of a crime of violence or is a fugutive 1 from justice. (e) It shall be unlawful for any person who is under indictment or who has been convicted of a crime of violence or who is a fugutive 1 from justice to ship, transport, or cause to be shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm or ammunition. (f) It shall be unlawful for any person who has been convicted of a crime of violence or is a fugutive 1 from justice to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce, and the possession of a firearm or ammunition by any such person shall be presumptive evidence that such firearm or ammunition was shipped or transported or received, as the case may be, by such person in violation of this Act. (g) It shall be unlawful for any person to transport or ship or cause to be transported or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce any stolen firearm or ammunition, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, same to have been stolen. (h) It shall be unlawful for any person to receive, conceal, store, barter, sell, or dispose of any firearm or ammunition or to pledge or accept as security for a loan any firearm or ammunition moving in or which is a part of interstate or foreign commerce, and which while so moving or constituting such part has been stolen, knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe the same to have been stolen. (i) It shall be unlawful for any person to transport, ship, or knowingly receive in interstate or foreign commerce any firearm from which the manufacturer's serial number has been removed, obliterated, or altered, and the possession of any such firearm shall be presump- tive evidence that such firearm was transported, shipped, or received, as the case may be, by the possessor in violation of this Act. SEC. 3. (a) Any manufacturer or dealer desiring a license to trans- port, ship, or receive firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce shall make application to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall prescribe by rules and regulations the information to be contained in such application. The applicant shall, if a manufacturer, pay a fee of $25 per annum and, if a dealer, shall pay a fee of $1 per annum. (b) Upon payment of the prescribed fee, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue to such applicant a license which shall entitle the licensee to transport, ship, and receive firearms and ammunition in interstate and foreign commerce unless and until the license is suspended or revoked in accordance with the provisions of this Act: Provided, That no license shall be issued to any applicant within two years after the revocation of a previous license. (c) Whenever any licensee is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to notify the Secretary of the Treasury within forty-eight hours after such conviction and said Secretary shall revoke such license: Provided,That in the case of appeal from such conviction the licensee may furnish a bond in the amount of $1,000, and upon receipt of such bond acceptable to the Secretary of the Treasury he may permit the licensee to continue business during the period of the appeal, or should the licensee refuse or neglect to furnish such bond, the Secre- 'So in original. 1251 Shipment to person under indictment, etc. Shipment by person under indictment, etc. Receipt by person convicted of crime of violence, etc. Transportation of stolen firearms, etc. Traffic in stolen firearms. Transportation of firearms from which serialnumberhas been removed. Licenses, applica- tion, fee. Issuance. Proviso. Islsance after revo- cation. Revocation on con- viction of licensee. Provis. Temporary continu- ance; bond.

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