[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2008 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2008

  To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate gun 
safety, and to ban the importation or manufacture of handguns which do 
                   not have certain safety features.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 1999

Mr. Blumenauer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate gun 
safety, and to ban the importation or manufacture of handguns which do 
                   not have certain safety features.

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

SECTION 1. COVERAGE UNDER THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY ACT.

    Subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of section 3 of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052) is repealed.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OR MANUFACTURE OF HANDGUNS WITHOUT 
              CERTAIN SAFETY FEATURES.

    (a) In General.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after subsection (y) the following:
    ``(z) It shall be unlawful for any person to import or manufacture 
a handgun, unless--
            ``(1) the trigger of the weapon cannot be pulled by an 
        individual whose hand and finger strength does not exceed the 
        average hand and finger strength of children who have attained 
        4 years of age but have not attained 5 years of age;
            ``(2) the weapon cannot be fired without an ammunition 
        magazine or clip attached;
            ``(3) there is incorporated into the weapon a locking 
        feature that, when activated, prevents the weapon from being 
        fired, and that cannot be removed from the weapon without 
        rendering the weapon inoperable; or
            ``(4) the weapon includes a mechanism which visibly and 
        noticeably indicates whether ammunition is present in the 
        weapon.''.
    (b) Penalties.--
            (1) In general.--Section 924(a) of such title is amended by 
        adding at the end the following:
    ``(7) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(z) shall be fined not 
more than $10,000, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. Section 
3571(e) shall not apply to an offense under section 922(z).''.
            (2) Loss of license.--Section 923(e) of such title is 
        amended by inserting after the 2nd sentence the following: 
        ``The Secretary shall, after notice and opportunity for 
        hearing, revoke any license issued under this section if the 
        holder of the license has knowingly violated section 922(z).''.
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