[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2444 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2444

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the disposition, 
     within 60 days, of an application to exempt a projectile from 
              classification as armor piercing ammunition.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 19, 2016

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for the disposition, 
     within 60 days, of an application to exempt a projectile from 
              classification as armor piercing ammunition.

    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 ``Alternative Ammunition Manufacturing 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEADLINE FOR DECISION ON APPLICATION TO EXEMPT PROJECTILE FROM 
              CLASSIFICATION AS ARMOR PIERCING AMMUNITION.

    Section 921(a)(17) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(D)(i) An application to exempt a projectile from 
        classification as armor piercing ammunition, that is received 
        by the Attorney General on or after August 1, 2011, is deemed 
        approved if the Attorney General does not disapprove the 
        application within 60 days after the later of--
                    ``(I) the date the application is so received; or
                    ``(II) the date of the enactment of this 
                subparagraph.
            ``(ii) If the Attorney General disapproves such an 
        application, the Attorney General shall provide the applicant, 
        in writing, with detailed findings of fact and the reasons for 
        the disapproval.''.
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