[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2702 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2702

 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of 
   firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on 
                     semiautomatic assault weapons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 21, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of 
   firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on 
                     semiautomatic assault weapons.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO BAN THE IMPORTATION OF FIREARMS THAT HAVE BEEN 
              COSMETICALLY ALTERED TO AVOID THE BAN ON SEMIAUTOMATIC 
              ASSAULT WEAPONS.

    Section 925 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the 
Secretary shall prohibit a firearm from being imported or brought into 
the United States if the firearm would be a semiautomatic assault 
weapon but for cosmetic alteration.''.
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