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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5088 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon to a person under 21 years of age, and to prohibit 

the possession or ownership of a semiautomatic assault weapon by such 

a person, with exceptions for active duty military personnel and fulltime law enforcement employees. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 26, 2018 

Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself and Mr. COHEN) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon to a person under 

21 years of age, and to prohibit the possession or ownership of a semiautomatic assault weapon by such a person, with exceptions for active duty military personnel 

and full-time law enforcement employees. 

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 ‘‘No More Atrocities 

5 with Guns Act’’ or the ‘‘No MAGA Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. INCREASE IN MINIMUM AGE AT WHICH A PERSON 

2 MAY BE TRANSFERRED, OR POSSESS OR OWN, 

3 A SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPON, WITH 

4 EXCEPTIONS. 

5 (a) PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER BY FEDERAL FIRE6 ARMS LICENSEE.— 

7 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 922(b)(1) of title 

8 18, United States Code, is amended to read as fol9 lows: 

10 ‘‘(1)(A) any firearm or ammunition to any indi11 vidual who the licensee knows or has reasonable 

12 cause to believe has not attained 18 years of age; 

13 ‘‘(B) any semiautomatic assault weapon to any 

14 individual who the licensee knows or has reasonable 

15 cause to believe has not attained 21 years of age and 

16 is not a qualified individual; or 

17 ‘‘(C) if the firearm or ammunition is not a 

18 semiautomatic assault weapon and is other than a 

19 shotgun or rifle, or ammunition for a shotgun or 

20 rifle, to any individual who the licensee knows or has 

21 reasonable cause to believe has not attained 21 years 

22 of age;’’. 

23 (2) SWORN STATEMENT.—Section 922(c)(1) of 

24 such title is amended by striking ‘‘in the case of any 

25 firearm’’ and all that follows through ‘‘eighteen 

26 years or more of age’’ and inserting ‘‘in the case of 


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1 a semiautomatic assault weapon, I am at least 21 

2 years of age or a qualified individual (as defined in 

3 section 921(a)(31) of title 18, United States Code), 

4 in the case of a firearm other than a semiautomatic 

5 assault weapon, a shotgun or a rifle, I am at least 

6 21 years of age, or that, in the case of a shotgun 

7 or a rifle, I am at least 18 years of age’’. 

8 (b) PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER BY OTHERS; PROHI9 BITION ON POSSESSION OR OWNERSHIP.— 

10 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 922 of such title is 

11 amended by adding at the end the following: 

12 ‘‘(aa) It shall be unlawful— 

13 ‘‘(1) for any person not licensed under section 

14 923, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, 

15 to transfer a semiautomatic assault weapon to an in16 dividual who has not attained 21 years of age and 

17 is not a qualified individual; or 

18 ‘‘(2) for an individual who has not attained 21 

19 years of age and is not a qualified individual to pos20 sess or own a semiautomatic assault weapon in or 

21 affecting interstate or foreign commerce.’’. 

22 (2) PENALTIES.—Section 924 of such title is 

23 amended— 

24 (A) in subsection (a), by adding at the end 

25 the following: 


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1 ‘‘(8)(A) Whoever knowingly violates section 

2 922(aa)(1) shall be fined not more than $50,000 (or, in 

3 the case of the second or a subsequent such offense, not 

4 more than $250,000), imprisoned not more than 5 years, 

5 or both. 

6 ‘‘(B) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(aa)(2) 

7 shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned not more 

8 than 5 years, or both.’’; and 

9 (B) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘or 

10 (k)’’ and inserting ‘‘(k), or (aa)’’. 

11 (c) DEFINITIONS.— 

12 (1) SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPON.—Sec13 tion 921(a) of such title is amended by inserting 

14 after paragraph (29) the following: 

15 ‘‘(30) The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ 

16 means any semiautomatic assault weapon, as defined in 

17 section 921(a)(30) of this title, as included in the enact18 ment of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use 

19 Protection Act without regard to the repeal of such Act. 

20 ‘‘(31) The term ‘qualified individual’ means— 

21 ‘‘(A) a member of the Armed Forces on active 

22 duty; and 

23 ‘‘(B) a qualified law enforcement officer (as de24 fined in section 926B(c)(1).’’. 


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1 (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

2 this section shall apply to conduct engaged in after the 

3 90-day period that begins with the date of the enactment 

4 of this Act. 

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