[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2377 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2377

To provide for a study and report to the Congress on the use of antique 
                           firearms in crime.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 1999

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for a study and report to the Congress on the use of antique 
                           firearms in crime.

    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 ``Study of Antique Firearms (SAF) 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) recent events in Norristown, Pennsylvania have focused 
        the region's attention on the issue of antique firearms and 
        their use in violent crimes;
            (2) antique firearms are not subject to the same laws that 
        regulate conventional firearms; and
            (3) statistics on the use of antique firearms in crime are 
        not consistently gathered, and crime perpetrated with antique 
        firearms is not tracked.

SEC. 3. STUDY; REPORT TO THE CONGRESS.

    (a) Study.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall collect statistics 
on the use of antique firearms in crime, and shall conduct a study on 
the use of antique firearms in crime. For purposes of this section, the 
term ``antique firearms'' has the meaning given the term in section 
921(a)(16) of title 18, United States Code.
    (b) Report.--Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the Committee 
on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
the Judiciary of the Senate a written report on the statistics 
collected and the results of the study conducted under subsection (a).
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