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2019 SESSION
SB 1008 Firearms; mechanical devices designed to increase rate of fire, penalty.
Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Mechanical devices designed to increase the rate of fire of firearms; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, import, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of a trigger activator, which includes a trigger crank or bump-fire device, that is designed to increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but does not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun. A violation is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor for a first or second offense and a Class 6 felony for a third or subsequent offense of this or certain other firearms offenses.
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HISTORY
- 07/23/18 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100111D
- 07/23/18 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/16/19 Senate: Stricken at the request of Patron in Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N)