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An automatic firearm firing a continuous stream of bullets. The National Firearms Act (Act), 26 U.S.C. 5801-5872, imposes strict registration requirements on statutorily defined 'firearms.' The Act includes within the term 'firearm' a machinegun, 5845(a)(6), and further defines a machinegun as 'any weapon which shoots . . . or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. 5845(b). Thus, any fully automatic weapon is a 'firearm' within the meaning of the Act. 1 Under the Act, all firearms must be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by ...