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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2567 

To require that all handguns manufactured, sold in, or imported into, the 

United States incorporate technology that precludes the average five 

year old child from operating the handgun when it is ready to fire. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 27, 2013 

Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. 

CLARKE, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. TIERNEY, Ms. 

SHEA-PORTER, Mr. HOLT, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 

MORAN, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. CLAY, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. HONDA, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Mr. FARR) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 

to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 

concerned 

A BILL 

To require that all handguns manufactured, sold in, or imported into, the United States incorporate technology 

that precludes the average five year old child from operating the handgun when it is ready to fire. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Handgun Safety 

3 Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR 

5 CHILD-RESISTANT HANDGUNS. 

6 (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARD.—Notwith7 standing section 3(a)(5)(E) of the Consumer Product 

8 Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(5)(E)), the Consumer 

9 Product Safety Commission, in consultation with the At10 torney General and the Director of the National Institute 

11 of Justice, shall promulgate a consumer product safety 

12 standard under section 7(a) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 

13 2056(a)) for handguns. 

14 (b) STANDARD REQUIREMENTS.— 

15 (1) IN GENERAL.—The standard established 

16 under subsection (a) shall require that— 

17 (A) effective 1 year after the date of the 

18 enactment of this Act, any handgun manufac19 tured in the United States must be child-resist20 ant and include a mechanism such as one de21 scribed in paragraph (2) that effectively pre22 cludes an average five year old child from oper23 ating the handgun when it is ready to fire; and 

24 (B) effective 2 years after the date of the 

25 enactment of this Act, any handgun sold, of26 fered for sale, traded, transferred, shipped, 


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1 leased, or distributed in the United States must 

2 be— 

3 (i) child-resistant, if manufactured on 

4 or after the effective date in subparagraph 

5 (A); or 

6 (ii) a retrofitted child-resistant hand7 gun, if manufactured before the effective 

8 date in paragraph (1). 

9 (2) MECHANISMS DESCRIBED.—The mecha10 nisms described in paragraph (1)(A) include— 

11 (A) raising trigger resistance to at least a 

12 ten-pound pull; 

13 (B) altering the firing mechanism so that 

14 an average five year old child’s hands are too 

15 small to operate the handgun; or 

16 (C) requiring a series of multiple motions 

17 in order to fire the handgun. 

18 (c) EXEMPTIONS.— 

19 (1) ANTIQUE FIREARMS.—The standard estab20 lished under this section shall not require retro21 fitting of antique firearms. 

22 (2) MILITARY FIREARMS.—The standard estab23 lished under this section shall not apply to a firearm 

24 that is owned by the Department of Defense. 

25 (d) COST OF RETROFITTING.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para2 graph (2), the cost of retrofitting a handgun as re3 quired under subsection (b) shall be borne by the 

4 manufacturer of the handgun if the manufacturer is 

5 operational at the time the retrofit is required. 

6 (2) REIMBURSEMENT.—Section 524(c) of title 

7 28, United States Code, is amended— 

8 (A) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘; 

9 and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 

10 (B) in subparagraph (I), by striking the 

11 period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

12 (C) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the 

13 following: 

14 ‘‘(J) payments to reimburse manufacturers of 

15 handguns for the costs of retrofitting handguns as 

16 required by section 201(b)(2)(B) of the Child Hand17 gun Safety Act.’’. 

18 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

19 In this title: 

20 (1) HANDGUN AND ANTIQUE FIREARM.—The 

21 terms ‘‘handgun’’ and ‘‘antique firearm’’ have the 

22 meanings given such terms in section 921 of title 18, 

23 United States Code. 

24 (2) CHILD-RESISTANT HANDGUN.—The term 

25 ‘‘child-resistant handgun’’ means a handgun that— 


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1 (A) prevents a child from being able to fire 

2 the handgun; and 

3 (B) was manufactured in such a manner 

4 that the firing restriction described in subpara5 graph (A)— 

6 (i) is incorporated into the design of 

7 the handgun; and 

8 (ii) cannot be readily removed or de9 activated. 

10 (3) RETROFITTED PERSONALIZED HANDGUN.— 

11 The term ‘‘retrofitted child-resistant handgun’’ 

12 means a handgun fitted with a device that— 

13 (A) precludes an average five year old child 

14 from operating the handgun when it is ready to 

15 fire; and 

16 (B) attaches to the handgun in a manner 

17 such that the device cannot be readily removed 

18 or deactivated. 

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