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Firearm sales; criminal history record information checks; penalty. Requires a background check for any firearm sale and directs the Department of State Police (the Department) to establish a process for transferors to obtain such a background check from licensed firearms dealers. A person who sells a firearm to another person without obtaining the required background check is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill also provides that a purchaser who receives a firearm from another person without obtaining the required background check is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill removes the provision that makes background checks of prospective purchasers or transferees at firearms shows voluntary. The bill also provides that the Department shall have three business days to complete a background check before a firearm may be transferred.

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Lamont Bagby (D)*,  Dan Helmer (D)*,  Michael Mullin (D)*,  Kenneth Plum (D)*,  Betsy Carr (D),  Jennifer Carroll Foy (D),  Eileen Filler-Corn (D),  Patrick Hope (D),  Kaye Kory (D),  Mark Levine (D),  Alfonso Lopez (D),  Delores McQuinn (D),  Kathleen Murphy (D),  Marcia Price (D),  David Reid (D),  Ibraheem Samirah (D),  Vivian Watts (D), 

Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1111) (on 04/10/2020)

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