I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2567 
To require that all handguns manufactured, sold in, or imported into, the 
United States incorporate technology that precludes the average five 
year old child from operating the handgun when it is ready to fire. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 27, 2013 
Ms. SPEIER (for herself, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, Ms. 
CLARKE, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mr. TIERNEY, Ms. 
SHEA-PORTER, Mr. HOLT, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
MORAN, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. CLAY, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Mr. HONDA, Mr. MCGOVERN, and Mr. FARR) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To require that all handguns manufactured, sold in, or im-
ported into, the United States incorporate technology 
that precludes the average five year old child from oper-
ating the handgun when it is ready to fire. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Child Handgun Safety 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR 
CHILD-RESISTANT HANDGUNS. 
(a) 
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
STANDARD.—Notwith-
standing section 3(a)(5)(E) of the Consumer Product 
Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2052(a)(5)(E)), the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission, in consultation with the At-
torney General and the Director of the National Institute 
of Justice, shall promulgate a consumer product safety 
standard under section 7(a) of such Act (15 U.S.C. 
2056(a)) for handguns. 
(b) STANDARD REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The standard established 
under subsection (a) shall require that— 
(A) effective 1 year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, any handgun manufac-
tured in the United States must be child-resist-
ant and include a mechanism such as one de-
scribed in paragraph (2) that effectively pre-
cludes an average five year old child from oper-
ating the handgun when it is ready to fire; and 
(B) effective 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, any handgun sold, of-
fered for sale, traded, transferred, shipped, 
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leased, or distributed in the United States must 
be— 
(i) child-resistant, if manufactured on 
or after the effective date in subparagraph 
(A); or 
(ii) a retrofitted child-resistant hand-
gun, if manufactured before the effective 
date in paragraph (1). 
(2) MECHANISMS
DESCRIBED.—The mecha-
nisms described in paragraph (1)(A) include— 
(A) raising trigger resistance to at least a 
ten-pound pull; 
(B) altering the firing mechanism so that 
an average five year old child’s hands are too 
small to operate the handgun; or 
(C) requiring a series of multiple motions 
in order to fire the handgun. 
(c) EXEMPTIONS.— 
(1) ANTIQUE FIREARMS.—The standard estab-
lished under this section shall not require retro-
fitting of antique firearms. 
(2) MILITARY FIREARMS.—The standard estab-
lished under this section shall not apply to a firearm 
that is owned by the Department of Defense. 
(d) COST OF RETROFITTING.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the cost of retrofitting a handgun as re-
quired under subsection (b) shall be borne by the 
manufacturer of the handgun if the manufacturer is 
operational at the time the retrofit is required. 
(2) REIMBURSEMENT.—Section 524(c) of title 
28, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (I), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the 
following: 
‘‘(J) payments to reimburse manufacturers of 
handguns for the costs of retrofitting handguns as 
required by section 201(b)(2)(B) of the Child Hand-
gun Safety Act.’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) HANDGUN
AND
ANTIQUE
FIREARM.—The 
terms ‘‘handgun’’ and ‘‘antique firearm’’ have the 
meanings given such terms in section 921 of title 18, 
United States Code. 
(2) CHILD-RESISTANT
HANDGUN.—The term 
‘‘child-resistant handgun’’ means a handgun that— 
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(A) prevents a child from being able to fire 
the handgun; and 
(B) was manufactured in such a manner 
that the firing restriction described in subpara-
graph (A)— 
(i) is incorporated into the design of 
the handgun; and 
(ii) cannot be readily removed or de-
activated. 
(3) RETROFITTED PERSONALIZED HANDGUN.— 
The term ‘‘retrofitted child-resistant handgun’’ 
means a handgun fitted with a device that— 
(A) precludes an average five year old child 
from operating the handgun when it is ready to 
fire; and 
(B) attaches to the handgun in a manner 
such that the device cannot be readily removed 
or deactivated. 
Æ 
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