H. R. 1189
One Hundred Third Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the fifth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-three
An Act
To entitle certain armored car crew members to lawfully carry a weapon in any
State while protecting the security of valuable goods in interstate commerce
in the service of an armored car company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Armored Car Industry Reciprocity
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that—
(1) the distribution of goods and services to consumers
in the United States requires the free flow of currency, bullion,
securities, food stamps, and other items of unusual value in
interstate commerce;
(2) the armored car industry transports and protects such
items in interstate commerce, including daily transportation
of 
currency 
and 
food 
stamps 
valued 
at 
more 
than
$1,000,000,000;
(3) armored car crew members are often subject to armed
attack by individuals attempting to steal such items;
(4) to protect themselves and the items they transport,
such crew members are armed with weapons;
(5) various States require both weapons training and a
criminal record background check before licensing a crew mem-
ber to carry a weapon; and
(6) there is a need for each State to reciprocally accept
weapons licenses of other States for armored car crew members
to assure the free and safe transport of valuable items in
interstate commerce.
SEC. 3. STATE RECIPROCITY OF WEAPONS LICENSES ISSUED TO
ARMORED CAR COMPANY CREW MEMBERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—If an armored car crew member employed
by an armored car company has in effect a license issued by the
appropriate State agency (in the State in which such member
is primarily employed by such company) to carry a weapon while
acting in the services of such company in that State, and such
State agency meets the minimum State requirements under sub-
section (b), then such crew member shall be entitled to lawfully
carry any weapon to which such license relates in any State while
such crew member is acting in the service of such company.
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(b) MINIMUM STATE REQUIREMENTS.—A State agency meets
the minimum State requirements of this subsection if in issuing
a weapons license to an armored car crew member described in
subsection (a), the agency requires the crew member to provide
information on an annual basis to the satisfaction of the agency
that—
(1) the crew member has received classroom and range
training in weapons safety and marksmanship during the cur-
rent year by a qualified instructor for each weapon that the
crew member is licensed to carry; and
(2) the receipt or possession of a weapon by the crew
member would not violate Federal law, determined on the
basis of a criminal record background check conducted during
the current year.
SEC. 4. RELATION TO OTHER LAWS.
This Act shall supersede any provision of State law (or the
law of any political subdivision of a State) that is inconsistent
with this Act.
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) The term ‘‘armored car crew member’’ means an individ-
ual who provides protection for goods transported by an
armored car company.
(2) The term ‘‘armored car company’’ means a company—
(A) subject to regulation under subchapter II of chapter
105 of title 49, United States Code; and
(B) holding the appropriate certificate, permit, or
license issued under subchapter II of chapter 109 of such
title, in order to engage in the business of transporting
and protecting currency, bullion, securities, precious met-
als, food stamps, and other articles of unusual value in
interstate commerce.
(3) The term ‘‘State’’ means any State of the United States
or the District of Columbia.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.