[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1266 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1266

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

                           February 14, 2019

 Mr. Espaillat (for himself, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Cohen, 
 Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Norton, 
Mrs. Watson Coleman, and Ms. Velazquez) 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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