HR 1474 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act

Fact sheet

Latest action · Apr 30, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 10, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act - Amends the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the repeal date for 10 years; and (2) extend coverage of, and exemptions under, the Act to undetectable firearm receivers and ammunition magazines.

Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of any receiver for a rifle or handgun, or of any ammunition magazine, that: (1) is manufactured by a person who is not a licensed manufacturer; (2) is not as detectable as the Receiver Security Exemplar or the Magazine Security Exemplar by walk-through metal detectors; or (3) does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of a receiver or a magazine when subjected to inspection by airport x-ray machines.

Allows barium sulfate or other compounds to be used in the fabrication of a firearm receiver.

Defines a "Receiver Security Exemplar" and a "Magazine Security Exemplar" as objects fabricated at the direction of the Attorney General that are: (1) constructed, respectively, of 3.7 ounces of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling the lower receiver for a rifle or handgun or of 1 ounce of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling an ammunition magazine; and (2) suitable for testing and calibrating metal detectors.

Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to permit receivers or magazines that were previously prohibited but that become as detectable as the respective Exemplar in view of advances in weapons detection technology.

Cosponsors 7

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 18, 2013 to Nov 20, 2013.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NYCharles B. RangelApr 18, 2013
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyApr 18, 2013
D-RIDavid N. CicillineMay 8, 2013
R-NYPeter T. KingMay 8, 2013
D-AZRaúl M. GrijalvaMay 8, 2013
D-PAMatt CartwrightJun 18, 2013
D-MIJohn Conyers, Jr.Nov 20, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Apr 30, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
  2. Apr 10, 2013Introduced in House
  3. Apr 10, 2013Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1149Undetectable Firearms Modernization ActRelated billJun 12, 2013

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 10, 2013Introduced in House

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