[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR179.23]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND FIREARMS
 
 CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS, DEPARTMENT OF THE 
                                TREASURY
 
PART 179--MACHINE GUNS, DESTRUCTIVE DEVICES, AND CERTAIN OTHER FIREARMS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C--Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec. 179.23  Restrictive use of required information.

    No information or evidence obtained from an application, 
registration, or record required to be submitted or retained by a 
natural person in order to comply with any provision of 26 U.S.C. 
Chapter 53, or this part or section 207 of the Gun Control Act of 1968 
shall be used, directly or indirectly, as evidence against that person 
in a criminal proceeding with respect to a violation of law occurring 
prior to or concurrently with the filing of the application or 
registration, or the compiling of the record containing the information 
or evidence: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section 
shall not preclude the use of any such information or evidence in a 
prosecution or other action under any applicable provision of law with 
respect to the furnishing of false information.

[36 FR 14256, Aug. 3, 1971. Redesignated at 40 FR 16835, Apr. 15, 1975, 
and amended by T.D. ATF-48, 44 FR 55842, Sept. 28, 1979]