Bill Text: PA HB1918 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for firearms not to be carried without a license, for sale or transfer of firearms and for antique firearms.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-10-26 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB1918 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB1918-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2643
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 1918 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY TALLMAN, BLOOM, CLYMER, GEORGE, KNOWLES, MILLER, MOUL, MURT, READSHAW, SONNEY, STERN, VULAKOVICH AND WHITE, OCTOBER 26, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
articles, further providing for firearms not to be carried
without a license, for sale or transfer of firearms and for
antique firearms.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6106(e) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
§ 6106. Firearms not to be carried without a license.
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(d.1) Applicability to antique firearms.--The provisions of
this section shall apply to an antique firearm.
(e) Definitions.--
(1) For purposes of subsection (b)(3), (4), (5), (7) and
(8), the term "firearm" shall include any weapon which is
designed to or may readily be converted to expel any
projectile by the action of an explosive or the frame or
receiver of the weapon.
(2) As used in this section, the phrase "place of
instruction" shall include any hunting club, rifle club,
rifle range, pistol range, shooting range, the premises of a
licensed firearms dealer or a lawful gun show or meet.
(3) As used in this section, the phrase "antique
firearm" shall mean a firearm as defined in section 6102
(relating to definitions) that satisfies the definition of
"antique firearm" in section 6118 (relating to antique
firearms).
Section 2. Sections 6111(e) and 6118 of Title 18 are amended
to read:
§ 6111. Sale or transfer of firearms.
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[(e) Nonapplicability of section.--This section shall not
apply to the following:
(1) Any firearm manufactured on or before 1898.
(2) Any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock or
percussion cap type of ignition system.
(3) Any replica of any firearm described in paragraph
(1) if the replica:
(i) is not designed or redesigned to use rimfire or
conventional center fire fixed ammunition; or
(ii) uses rimfire or conventional center fire fixed
ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United
States and which is not readily available in the ordinary
channels of commercial trade.]
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§ 6118. Antique firearms.
(a) General rule.--[This] Except as provided in section 6106
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(relating to firearms not to be carried without a license), this
subchapter shall not apply to antique firearms.
[(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to the
extent that such antique firearms, reproductions or replicas of
firearms are concealed weapons as provided in section 6106
(relating to firearms not be carried without a license), nor
shall it apply to the provisions of section 6105 (relating to
persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or
transfer firearms) if such antique firearms, reproductions or
replicas of firearms are suitable for use.]
(c) Definition.--As used in this section, the [term "antique
firearm" means:] following words and phrases shall have the
meanings given to them in this subsection:
"Antique firearm." The term means:
(1) Any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock or
percussion cap type of ignition system.
(2) Any firearm manufactured on or before 1898.
(3) Any replica of any firearm described in paragraph
(2) if such replica:
(i) is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire
or conventional center fire fixed ammunition; or
(ii) uses rimfire or conventional center fire fixed
ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United
States and which is not readily available in the ordinary
channels of commercial trade.
"Firearm." The term includes any weapon that is designed to
or may readily be converted to expel any projectile by the
action of an explosive or the frame or receiver of the weapon.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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