1046 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 550

"Crimes and Punishment" to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 350 of said Article and to be designated as Sections
350A, 350B, 350C, 350D, 350E, 350F, 350G, 350H, 350I,
350J, 350K, 350L, 350M, and to read as follows:

Section 350A. Definitions. "Machine Gun" as used in
this Act, means a weapon, of any description, by whatever
name known, loaded or unloaded, from which more than
one shot or bullet may be automatically discharged from a
magazine, by a single function of the firing device.

"Crime of Violence" applies to and includes any of the
following crimes or an attempt to commit any of the same,
namely, murder of any degree, manslaughter, kidnapping,
rape, mayhem, assault to do great bodily harm, robbery,
burglary, housebreaking, breaking and entering, and lar-
ceny.

"Person" applies to and includes firm, partnership, asso-
ciation or corporation.

Section 350B. Possession or use of a machine gun in
the perpetration or attempted perpetration of a crime of
violence is hereby declared to be a crime punishable by
imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of not
more than twenty years.

Section 350C. Possession or use of a machine gun for
offensive or aggressive purpose is hereby declared to be
a crime punishable by imprisonment in the state peni-
tentiary for term of not more than ten years.

Section. 350D. Possession or use of a machine gun
shall be presumed to be for offensive or aggressive pur-
pose:

(a) when the machine gun is on premises not owned
or rented, for bona fide permanent residence or business
occupancy, by the person in whose possession the machine
gun may be found; or

(b) when in the possession of, or used by, an un-
naturalized foreign-born person, or a person who has been
convicted of a crime of violence in any court of record,
state or federal, of the United States of America, its terri-
tories or insular possessions; or

(c) when the machine gun is of the kind described in
Section 350H and has not been registered as in said sec-
tion required; or