I 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Firearms 
Amendments Act of 2019’’. 
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SEC. 2. SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLE WITH CAPACITY TO AC-
CEPT DETACHABLE MAGAZINE TREATED AS 
FIREARM UNDER NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5845(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘; and (8) a destructive device.’’ 
and inserting ‘‘; (8) a destructive device; and (9) a 
semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the capacity 
to accept a detachable ammunition feeding device.’’, 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘The 
term ‘detachable ammunition feeding device’ means 
an ammunition feeding device that can be removed 
from a firearm without disassembly of the firearm 
action. The term ‘ammunition feeding device’ means 
a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device, 
but does not include an attached tubular device 
which is only capable of operating with .22 caliber 
rimfire ammunition. The term ‘semiautomatic rifle 
or shotgun’ means any repeating rifle or shotgun 
which utilizes a portion of the energy of a firing car-
tridge to extract the fired cartridge case and cham-
ber the next round, and which requires a separate 
pull of the trigger to fire each cartridge.’’ 
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Any person who, on the date of 
the enactment of this Act, lawfully owns or possesses a 
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semiautomatic rifle or shotgun (as defined in section 
5845(a) of such Code, as amended by this Act) that has 
the capacity to accept a detachable ammunition feeding 
device (as defined in such section) shall, not later than 
120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, register 
the semiautomatic rifle or shotgun in accordance with sec-
tion 5841 of such Code. Such registration shall become 
a part of the National Firearms Registration and Transfer 
Record required to be maintained by such section. The 
prohibition on possession of an unregistered firearm under 
section 5861 of such Code shall not apply to possession 
of such a semiautomatic rifle or shotgun that has the ca-
pacity to accept such a detachable ammunition feeding de-
vice on any date that is 120 days or less after the enact-
ment of this Act. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives such sums as are 
necessary to carry out this Act. 
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