[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1168 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1168

  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

                           February 16, 2007

  Mrs. McCarthy of New York 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 of 
2007''.

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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