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PROCLAMATIONS — N O V. 18, 1953
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ENUMERATION OF ARMS, AMMUNITION, AND IMPLEMENTS OF W A R November 18, 1953 [No. 3038]
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 12(i) of the joint resolution of Congress approved November 4, 1939, 54 Stat. 11 (22 U.S.C. 452 (i)), provides in part as follows: " The President is hereby authorized to proclaim upon recommendation of the [National Munitions Control] Board from time to t i m e a list of articles which shall be considered arms, ammunition, and implements of war for the purposes of this section * * *"; and 22 USC 4S3.
Designation of certain articles as arms, ammunition, and implements of war.
WHEREAS section 13 of the said joint resolution provides, in part, that the President may exercise any power or authority conferred upon him by that resolution through any such officer or officers as he shall NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said joint resolution of Congress, and upon the recommendation of the National Munitions Control Board, do hereby declare and proclaim that the articles listed below and such components, parts, accessories, attachments, and related items as may be designated upon recommendation of the National Munitions Control Board in regulations issued by the Secretary of State and published in the Federal Register shall be considered arms, ammunition, and implements of war for the purposes of section 12 of the said joint resolution of Congress: CATEGORY I SMALL ARMS AND MACHINE GUNS
Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols, and machine guns using ammunition of caliber.22 or over. CATEGORY II
ARTILLERY AND PROJECTORS
Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, tank destroyers, rocket launchers, military flame throwers, military smoke projectors, and recoilless rifles. CATEGORY III
AMMUNITION
Ammunition of caliber.22 or over for the arms enumerated in Categories I and II hereof. CATEGORY IV
BOMBS, TORPEDOES, ROCKETS, AND GUIDED MISSILES
(a) Bombs, torpedoes, grenades (including smoke grenades), smoke canisters, rockets, mines, guided missiles, depth charges, fire bombs, incendiary bombs. (b) Apparatus and devices for the handling, control, activation, discharge, detonation, or detection of items enumerated in paragraph (a) of this category. CATEGORY V
FIRE CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND RANGE FINDERS
Fire control, gun tracking, and infrared and other nightsighting equipment; range, position and height finders, and spotting instruments; aiming devices (electronic, gyroscopic, optic, and acoustic); bomb sights, gun sights, and periscopes for the arms, ammunition, and implements of war enumerated in this proclamation. CATEGORY VI
TANKS AND ORDNANCE VEHICLES
Tanks, military type armed or armored vehicles, ammunition trailers, and amphibious vehicles (land vehicles capable of limited endurance in water), military half tracks, military type tank recovery vehicles, and gun carriers.
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