[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5100 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5100

To reinstate for 10 years the repealed criminal provisions relating to 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

Mrs. McCarthy of New York (for herself, Mr. Hoeffel, Mr. Ferguson, and 
 Mr. Castle) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To reinstate for 10 years the repealed criminal provisions relating to 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Neighborhood Security Act''.

SEC. 2. REINSTATEMENT FOR 10 YEARS OF REPEALED CRIMINAL PROVISIONS 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    (a) Reinstatement of Provisions Wholly Repealed.--Paragraphs (30) 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    (b) Reinstatement of Provisions Partially Repealed.--Section 924 of 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''.
    (c) Sunset.--Effective 10 years after the date of the enactment of 
this section--
            (1) the provisions enacted by subsection (a) of this 
        section are repealed; and
            (2) section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is 
        amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking ``(r), 
                (v), or (w)'' and inserting ``or (r)''; and
                    (B) in subsection (c)(1)(B)(i), by striking 
                ``short-barreled shotgun, or semiautomatic assault 
                weapon'' and inserting ``or short-barreled shotgun''.
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