Bill > HB4021

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Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, Prohibiting sale, transport, etc., of assault firearms, certain firearm magazines, trigger activators, and silencers; penalties. Expands the definition of "assault firearm" and prohibits any person from importing, selling, transferring, manufacturing, purchasing, possessing, or transporting an assault firearm. A violation is a Class 6 felony. The bill prohibits a dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory an assault firearm to any person. The bill also prohibits a person from carrying a shotgun with a magazine that will hold more than seven rounds of the longest ammunition for which it is chambered in a public place; under existing law, this prohibition applies only in certain localities. The bill makes it a Class 6 felony to import, sell, transfer, manufacture, purchase, possess, or transport large-capacity firearm magazines, silencers, and trigger activators, all defined in the bill. Any person who legally owns an assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator on November 1, 2019, may retain possession until July 1, 2020. During that time, such person shall (i) render the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator inoperable; (ii) remove the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator from the Commonwealth; (iii) transfer the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a person outside the Commonwealth who is not prohibited from possessing it; or (iv) surrender the assault firearm, large-capacity firearm magazine, silencer, or trigger activator to a state or local law-enforcement agency. The bill establishes an appropriation for the fiscal impact of the bill and authorizes the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget to allocate such appropriation among

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Jennifer Carroll Foy (D)*,  Mark Levine (D)*,  Sam Rasoul (D)*,  Cheryl Turpin (D)*,  Hala Ayala (D),  John Bell (D),  Jeffrey Bourne (D),  Betsy Carr (D),  Eileen Filler-Corn (D),  C.E. Hayes (D),  Charniele Herring (D),  Patrick Hope (D),  Kaye Kory (D),  Paul Krizek (D),  Alfonso Lopez (D),  Michael Mullin (D),  Kathleen Murphy (D),  Kenneth Plum (D),  Debra Rodman (D),  Ibraheem Samirah (D),  Mark Sickles (D),  Richard Sullivan (D),  Kathy Tran (D),  Jeion Ward (D), 

Tabled in Militia, Police and Public Safety with letter to Crime Commission (12-Y 9-N) (on 07/09/2019)

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