[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5162 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5162

  To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove the exclusion of 
pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of consumer 
 product in order to permit the issuance of safety standards for such 
          articles by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2018

   Ms. Kelly of Illinois (for herself, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Vargas, Mr. 
Lynch, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Ryan 
of Ohio, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. 
 Yarmuth, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. 
 Meeks, Ms. McCollum, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Keating, Mr. Danny K. 
   Davis of Illinois, Ms. Plaskett, and Ms. Brownley of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to remove the exclusion of 
pistols, revolvers, and other firearms from the definition of consumer 
 product in order to permit the issuance of safety standards for such 
          articles by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

    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 ``Firearm Safety Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF EXCLUSION OF FIREARMS FROM THE DEFINITION OF 
              CONSUMER PRODUCT.

    Section 3(a)(5) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 
2052(a)(5)) is amended by striking subparagraph (E) and redesignating 
subparagraphs (F) through (I) as subparagraphs (E) through (H), 
respectively.
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