[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5099 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5099

   To reinstate the repealed criminal provisions relating to assault 
         weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2004

   Mr. Hastings of Florida introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reinstate the repealed criminal provisions relating to assault 
         weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices.

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

SECTION 1. REINSTATEMENT OF REPEALED CRIMINAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO 
              ASSAULT WEAPONS AND LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING 
              DEVICES.

    (a) Reinstatement of Provisions Wholly Repealed.--Paragraphs (30) 
and (31) of section 921(a), subsections (v) and (w) and Appendix A of 
section 922, and the last 2 sentences of section 923(i) of title 18, 
United States Code, as in effect just before the repeal made by section 
110105(2) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 
are hereby enacted into law.
    (b) Reinstatement of Provisions Partially Repealed.--Section 924 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking subparagraph (B) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(B) knowingly violates subsection (a)(4), (f), (k), (r), 
        (v), or (w) of section 922;''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking clause (i) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(i) is a short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or 
        semiautomatic assault weapon, the person shall be sentenced to 
        a term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years; or''.
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