---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8942"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8942"
heading: "Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational institutions having corps of midshipmen"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8942"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 895 — Issue of Serviceable Material Other Than to Armed Forces"
---

# §8942. Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational institutions having corps of midshipmen

- (a) **Authority To Lend.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may lend, without expense to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1), magazine rifles and appendages that are not of the existing service models in use at the time and that are not necessary for a proper [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) supply, to any educational institution having a uniformed corps of midshipmen of sufficient number for target practice. The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) may also issue 40 rounds of ball cartridges for each midshipman for each [range](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1) at which target practice is held, but not more than 120 rounds each year for each midshipman participating in target practice.
- (b) **Responsibilities of Institutions.—** The institutions to which property is lent under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) use the property for target practice;
  - (2) take proper care of the property; and
  - (3) return the property when required.
- (c) **Regulations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section, containing such other requirements as he considers necessary to safeguard the interests of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title III, § 377(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 85, § 7912; renumbered § 8942, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(15), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7912 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.