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117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4376 

To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing of armed 

career criminals. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 9, 2022 

Mr. COTTON (for himself, Mr. CASSIDY, Mr. HAWLEY, Mr. YOUNG, Mr. 

TILLIS, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. DAINES, Mr. KENNEDY, and Mr. THUNE) 

introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 

Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, relating to sentencing 

of armed career criminals. 

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 ‘‘Stop Gun Criminals 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL 

7 ACT. 

8 Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is 

9 amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a)(2)— 

2 (A) by striking ‘‘violates subsection’’ and 

3 inserting the following: ‘‘violates— 

4 ‘‘(A) subsection’’; 

5 (B) in subparagraph (A), as so designated, 

6 by striking ‘‘(g)’’; 

7 (C) by striking the period at the end and 

8 inserting ‘‘; or’ ’’ and 

9 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

10 ‘‘(B) section 922(g) shall be— 

11 ‘‘(i) fined as provided in this title; and 

12 ‘‘(ii) except as provided in subsection 

13 (e) of this section, imprisoned not less than 

14 5 years and not more than 10 years.’’; 

15 (2) in subsection (c)(1)(A)— 

16 (A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and 

17 inserting ‘‘7 years’’; 

18 (B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘7 years’’ 

19 and inserting ‘‘10 years’’; and 

20 (C) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘10 years’’ 

21 and inserting ‘‘15 years’’; and 

22 (3) by striking subsection (e) and inserting the 

23 following: 

24 ‘‘(e)(1) Whoever knowingly violates section 922(g) 

25 and has 3 or more previous serious felony convictions for 


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1 offenses committed on occasions different from one an2 other shall be fined under this title and imprisoned not 

3 less than 15 years and not more than 30 years, and, not4 withstanding any other provision of law, the court shall 

5 not suspend the sentence of, or grant a probationary sen6 tence to, such person with respect to the conviction under 

7 section 922(g). 

8 ‘‘(2) In this subsection— 

9 ‘‘(A) the term ‘offense punishable by imprison10 ment for a statutory maximum term of not less than 

11 10 years’ includes an offense (without regard to the 

12 application of any sentencing guideline, statutory 

13 criterion, or judgment that may provide for a short14 er period of imprisonment within the statutory sen15 tencing range) for which the statute provides for a 

16 range in the period of imprisonment that may be im17 posed at sentencing the maximum term of which is 

18 not less than 10 years; and 

19 ‘‘(B) the term ‘serious felony conviction’ 

20 means— 

21 ‘‘(i) any conviction by a court referred to 

22 in section 922(g)(1) for an offense that, at the 

23 time of sentencing, was an offense punishable 

24 by imprisonment for a statutory maximum term 

25 of not less than 10 years; or 


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1 ‘‘(ii) any group of convictions for which a 

2 court referred to in section 922(g)(1) imposed 

3 in the same proceeding or in consolidated pro4 ceedings a total term of imprisonment of not 

5 less than 10 years, regardless of how many 

6 years of that total term the defendant served in 

7 custody.’’. 

8 SEC. 3. APPLICABILITY. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this 

10 Act relating to offenses committed by an individual who 

11 has 3 or more previous serious felony convictions (as de12 fined in subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United 

13 States Code, as amended by this Act) shall apply to any 

14 offense committed after the date of enactment of this Act 

15 by an individual who, on the date on which the offense 

16 is committed, has 3 or more previous serious felony convic17 tions. 

18 (b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—This Act and the 

19 amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to 

20 create any right to challenge a sentence imposed under 

21 subsection (e) of section 924 of title 18, United States 

22 Code. 

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