[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3263 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3263

  To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to authorize the Consumer 
  Product Safety Commission to regulate the risk of injury associated 
                             with firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 1993

 Mr. Derrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to authorize the Consumer 
  Product Safety Commission to regulate the risk of injury associated 
                             with firearms.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gun Safety Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FIREARMS.

    (a) Authority to Regulate.--Section 3(a)(1)(E) of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(1)(E)) is repealed.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Consumer product safety act.--Section 3(a)(1) of the 
        Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(1)) is amended 
        by striking out ``described in subparagraph (E) of this 
        paragraph or''.
            (2) Amendatory act.--Section 3(e) of the Consumer Product 
        Safety Commission Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 2080 
        note) is repealed.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST BANNING OF A FIREARM.

    Section 8 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2057) is 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following: ``This section 
shall not apply in the Commission's regulation of the risk of injury 
associated with firearms.''.

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