[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1532 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1532

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale or other 
transfer of armor piercing ammunition and components of armor piercing 
                  ammunition disposed of by the Army.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 1999

  Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Levin, Mr. Schumer, and Mr. Moynihan) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to restrict the sale or other 
transfer of armor piercing ammunition and components of armor piercing 
                  ammunition disposed of by the Army.

    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 ``Military Armor Piercing Ammunition 
Resale Limitation Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. RESALE OF ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION DISPOSED OF BY THE ARMY.

    (a) Restriction.--(1) Chapter 443 of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4688. Armor piercing ammunition and components: condition on 
              disposal
    ``(a) Limitation on Resale or Other Transfer.--Whenever the 
Secretary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or otherwise) of 
armor piercing ammunition, or a component of armor piercing ammunition, 
the Secretary shall require as a condition of the disposal that the 
recipient agree in writing not to sell or otherwise transfer any of the 
ammunition (reconditioned or otherwise), or any component of that 
ammunition, to any purchaser in the United States other than a law 
enforcement or other governmental agency.
    ``(b) Definition.--In this section, the term `armor piercing 
ammunition' means a center-fire cartridge the military designation of 
which includes the term `armor penetrator' or `armor piercing', 
including a center-fire cartridge designated as armor piercing 
incendiary (API) or armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API-T).''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``4688. Armor piercing ammunition and components: condition on 
                            disposal.''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 4688 of title 10, United States Code 
(as added by subsection (a)), shall apply with respect to any disposal 
of ammunition or components referred to in that section after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
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