31.   Federal law bans individuals from possessing machine guns.

32.   Federal law now bans the use of government money for abortions in foreign countries.

33.   Federal law specifically bans the possession of child pornography, while state statutes are less precise, the sources said.

34.   Federal law also bans physicians from prescribing federally controlled substances.

35.   Federal law bans mixing money from state races with funds for a campaign for federal office.

36.   French law bans the publication of poll results in the week before an election.

37.   German law bans child pornography.

38.   German laws ban the use of images of human or animal suffering for financial gain.

39.   He said that as applied to parks, the law bans smoking only in playgrounds and buildings.

40.   Israeli law bans torture, and the country is a signer of the international convention against the use of torture.