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'Munition' is often defined as a synonym for ammunition.
A narrower definition would include bombs, missiles, warheads, and mines (landmines, naval mines, and claymore mines) -- what munitions factories manufacture. These munitions are used on battlefields and war zones with lethal intent; unexploded ones may pose a hazard to civilians for years afterwards.
The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) contains no explosives itself; it adds guidance capability to an attached gravity bomb, making it into a so-called smart bomb.
The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a man-portable nuclear weapon.
Encryption software may also be considered a munition. Until 1996, U.S. Government International Traffic in Arms Regulations prohibited the export of anything stronger than 40-bit encryption.
The U.S. Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has published the United States Munitions List with 21 categories of munitions:
# Firearms, Close Assault Weapons and Combat Shotguns
# Guns and Armament
# Ammunition/Ordnance
# Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines
# Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents, and their Constituents
# Vessels of War and Special Naval Equipment
# Tanks and Military Vehicles
# Aircraft and Associated Equipment
# Military Training Equipment
# Military Electronics
# Protective Personnel Equipment
# Fire Control, Range Finder, Optical and Guidance and Control Equipment
# Auxiliary Military Equipment
# Toxicological Agents, Including Chemical Agents, Biological Agents, and Associated Equipment
# Spacecraft Systems and Associated Equipment
# Nuclear Weapons, Design and Testing Related Items
# Classified Articles, Technical Data and Defense Services Not Otherwise Enumerated
# Directed Energy Weapons
# [Reserved]
# Submersible Vessels, Oceanographic and Associated Equipment
# Miscellaneous Articles

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Gun law
AMMO (U. S. Air Force Munitions)