[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1931 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1931

  To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to extend the 
 firearm and ammunition prohibitions applicable to convicted felons to 
                  those convicted in a foreign court.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2005

Mrs. McCarthy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to extend the 
 firearm and ammunition prohibitions applicable to convicted felons to 
                  those convicted in a foreign court.

    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 ``Foreign Felon Gun Prohibition Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION PROHIBITIONS APPLICABLE TO 
              CONVICTED FELONS TO THOSE CONVICTED IN A FOREIGN COURT.

    Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(1), by inserting ``, including any 
        foreign court,'' after ``court''; and
            (2) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ``court of,'' and 
        inserting ``court, including any foreign court, of''.
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