5.__The Attorney General and the Chief of the State Police shall create a system for identifying any other models of assault weapons that are only variations of those weapons with minor differences that are prohibited by this section, regardless of the manufacturer.

6.__The Attorney General shall adopt rules to implement the purposes of this section.__Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §§1052 to 1054, as enacted by PL 1975, c. 499, §1, are amended to read:

§1052. Right to possess, carry or transport machine gun, assault

weapon, .50 caliber rifle or .50 caliber ammunition

Any law enforcement officer of the State of Maine, any law enforcement officer of another state or a territory of the United States, members of the Armed Forces, Maine National Guard and Maine State Guard may possess a machine gun, assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle or .50 caliber ammunition if the possession or carrying of such that weapon or ammunition is in the discharge of his that person's official duties and has been authorized by his that person's appointing authority.

Machine guns, assault weapons and .50 caliber rifles and ammunition manufactured, acquired, transferred or possessed in accordance with the National Firearms Act, as amended, shall be are exempt from this chapter.

§1053. Confiscation and seizure of machine gun, assault weapon or

.50 caliber rifle or .50 caliber ammunition

Any machine gun, assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle or__.50 caliber ammunition possessed in violation of section 1051 or section 1058 is declared to be contraband and is subject to forfeiture to the State. Any law enforcement officer shall have has the power to seize the same with due process.

When a machine gun, assault weapon or .50 caliber rifle or .50 caliber ammunition is seized as provided, the officer seizing the same shall immediately file with the judge before whom such