[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1278 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1278

To amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits 
                    to be considered to be firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2017

  Mr. Espaillat (for himself, Mr. Schneider, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. 
    Norton, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. 
Cicilline, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Cardenas, and Mr. Swalwell 
of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits 
                    to be considered to be firearms.

    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 ``Ghost Guns Are Guns Act''.

SEC. 2. FIREARM ASSEMBLY KITS CONSIDERED TO BE FIREARMS.

    Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or (D) any destructive 
        device'' and inserting ``; (D) any destructive device; or (E) 
        any combination of parts designed or intended for use in 
        converting any device into a firearm and from which a firearm 
        may be readily assembled''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4)--
                    (A) by adding ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (A);
                    (B) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (B) and inserting a period; and
                    (C) by striking subparagraph (C).
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