---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 928"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "928"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/928"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 44 — Firearms"
---

# §928. Separability


If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter and the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–351, title IV, § 902, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 234; amended Pub. L. 90–618, title I, § 102, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1226.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–618 reenacted section without change.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 90–618 effective Dec. 16, 1968, see section 105 of Pub. L. 90–618, set out as a note under section 921 of this title.

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after June 19, 1968, see section 907 of Pub. L. 90–351, set out as a note under section 921 of this title.