[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3542 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3542

  To amend title 18, United States Code, to regulate the manufacture, 
    importation, and sale of certain particularly dangerous bullets.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 1993

 Mr. Schumer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, to regulate the manufacture, 
    importation, and sale of certain particularly dangerous bullets.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 921(a)(17) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:
    ``(B) The term `armor piercing ammunition' means--
            ``(i) a projectile or projectile core which may be used in 
        a handgun and which is constructed entirely (excluding the 
        presence of traces of other substances) from one or a 
        combination of tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, 
        beryllium copper, or depleted uranium;
            ``(ii) a jacketed, hollow point projectile which may be 
        used in a handgun and the jacket of which is designed to 
        produce, upon impact, evenly spaced sharp or barb-like 
        projections that extent beyond the diameter of the unfired 
        projectile; or
            ``(iii) a jacketed projectile which may be used in a 
        handgun and the jacket of which has a weight of more than 25 
        percent of the total weight of the projectile.
    ``(C) The term `armor piercing ammunition' does not include shotgun 
shot required by Federal or State environmental or game regulations for 
hunting purposes, a frangible projectile designed for target shooting, 
a projectile which the Secretary finds is primarily intended to be used 
for sporting purposes, or any other projectile or projectile core which 
the Secretary finds is intended to be used for industrial purposes, 
including a charge used in an oil and gas well perforating device.''.

                                 <all>