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<dc:title>118 HR 9388 IH: Modern Firearm Safety Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2024-08-20</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">118th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">2d Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 9388</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20240820">August 20, 2024</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="I000056">Mr. Issa</sponsor> (for himself, <cosponsor name-id="S001196">Ms. Stefanik</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="T000478">Ms. Tenney</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="E000246">Mr. Edwards</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="H001052">Mr. Harris</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="H001091">Mrs. Hinson</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="C001129">Mr. Collins</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="G000589">Mr. Gooden of Texas</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="H001077">Mr. Higgins of Louisiana</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="B001302">Mr. Biggs</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HJU00">Committee on the Judiciary</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body id="H99FDFAAFE85643E0B516726E1AFACE55" style="OLC"> 
<section id="H2C5241462DBF4AC0BD4E3DC757121807" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Modern Firearm Safety Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section> <section id="H57F036352D3549F8AD95910BB8AFDB69"><enum>2.</enum><header>Prohibition on imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use</header> <subsection id="HF83A83D182414FA0ADFA2823121366B7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/18/44">Chapter 44</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/927">section 927</external-xref> the following:</text> 
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<section id="H52D716180C5F487B80D0BA9D428B84FB"><enum>927A.</enum><header>Prohibition on imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">A department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or of any State or political subdivision of a State, may not implement or enforce any provision of law or regulation that requires or has the effect of requiring, or promulgate any provision of regulation that would require or have the effect of requiring, a handgun that is in, or has been shipped or transported in, interstate or foreign commerce to—</text> <paragraph id="HEBBEF1A8219B481EB5923E7C802567A7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>incorporate a device that indicates whether the handgun is loaded;</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="HFF9CC80F9AF84AEA87347EA8599778FE"><enum>(2)</enum><text>incorporate a mechanism that prevents a handgun from being fired if an ammunition magazine is not fully inserted into the handgun;</text></paragraph> <paragraph id="HD7FC3716097142CB8EE4F6808FAB3543"><enum>(3)</enum><text>be capable of microstamping the shell casing of ammunition with microscopic characters representing the make, model, and serial number of the handgun, when the ammunition is fired from the handgun;</text></paragraph> 
<paragraph id="H4D90F56D4B754374840F0997E14634C2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>incorporate any device, mechanism, or technology that—</text> <subparagraph id="H570A1AAC3FD4448EA2421EE60EDE9616"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is designed or intended to perform any function described in the preceding provisions of this section; or</text></subparagraph> 
<subparagraph id="H929CFBD2A7D74C70AAE9DCB933DC8849"><enum>(B)</enum><text>may be readily converted to be capable of performing any such function; or</text></subparagraph></paragraph> <paragraph id="HA91548E69CA84A7182A4F9CFF39D56A4" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be capable of accepting the attachment of any device or mechanism described in paragraph (4).</text> </paragraph></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection> 
<subsection id="H6C0264F71DB143BCBE3B2D75C882A2FF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clerical amendment</header><text>The table of sections for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 927 the following:</text> <quoted-block style="USC" id="H507B9E43DC9346BF9CA6E67E3091B604" display-inline="no-display-inline"> <toc regeneration="no-regeneration"> <toc-entry level="section">927A. Prohibition on imposition of requirements that handguns have certain features generally absent from firearms in common use.</toc-entry></toc><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section> </legis-body></bill>

