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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1263 

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to subject to the requirements 

of the National Firearms Act any semiautomatic rifle that has the 

capacity to accept a detachable magazine. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 14, 2019 

Mr. DEUTCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL 

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to subject 

to the requirements of the National Firearms Act any 

semiautomatic rifle that has the capacity to accept a 

detachable magazine. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Firearms 

5 Amendments Act of 2019’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE WITH CAPACITY TO AC2 CEPT DETACHABLE MAGAZINE TREATED AS 

3 FIREARM UNDER NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5845(a) of the Internal 

5 Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 

6 (1) by striking ‘‘; and (8) a destructive device.’’ 

7 and inserting ‘‘; (8) a destructive device; and (9) a 

8 semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the capacity 

9 to accept a detachable ammunition feeding device.’’, 

10 and 

11 (2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The 

12 term ‘detachable ammunition feeding device’ means 

13 an ammunition feeding device that can be removed 

14 from a firearm without disassembly of the firearm 

15 action. The term ‘ammunition feeding device’ means 

16 a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, 

17 but does not include an attached tubular device 

18 which is only capable of operating with .22 caliber 

19 rimfire ammunition. The term ‘semiautomatic rifle 

20 or shotgun’ means any repeating rifle or shotgun 

21 which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing car22 tridge to extract the fired cartridge case and cham23 ber the next round, and which requires a separate 

24 pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.’’ 

25 (b) APPLICABILITY.—Any person who, on the date of 

26 the enactment of this Act, lawfully owns or possesses a 


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1 semiautomatic rifle or shotgun (as defined in section 

2 5845(a) of such Code, as amended by this Act) that has 

3 the capacity to accept a detachable ammunition feeding 

4 device (as defined in such section) shall, not later than 

5 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, register 

6 the semiautomatic rifle or shotgun in accordance with sec7 tion 5841 of such Code. Such registration shall become 

8 a part of the National Firearms Registration and Transfer 

9 Record required to be maintained by such section. The 

10 prohibition on possession of an unregistered firearm under 

11 section 5861 of such Code shall not apply to possession 

12 of such a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the ca13 pacity to accept such a detachable ammunition feeding de14 vice on any date that is 120 days or less after the enact15 ment of this Act. 

16 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

17 are authorized to be appropriated to the Bureau of Alco18 hol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives such sums as are 

19 necessary to carry out this Act. 

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