Title: Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act
This bill amends the federal criminal code to make it a crime to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.
The bill does not prohibit, with respect to such firearm accessories, the importation or manufacture for, sale or transfer to, or possession by a federal, state, or local government.
A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3947 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3947

To prohibit the possession or transfer of certain firearm accessories, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 4, 2017

  Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Bass, Mrs. 
 Beatty, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Bonamici, 
 Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
    Brown of Maryland, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Capuano, Mr. 
 Carbajal, Mr. Cardenas, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Castor of Florida, 
 Ms. Judy Chu of California, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cleaver, 
   Mr. Cohen, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Crist, Mr. Crowley, Mr. 
Cummings, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mr. 
   DeFazio, Ms. DeGette, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. DelBene, Mrs. Demings, Mr. 
   DeSaulnier, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
 Engel, Mr. Espaillat, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Esty of Connecticut, Mr. Evans, 
 Ms. Frankel of Florida, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. 
Gomez, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Heck, Mr. Higgins 
 of New York, Mr. Himes, Ms. Norton, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. 
Jayapal, Mr. Jeffries, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Johnson 
   of Georgia, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Keating, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
 Kihuen, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Langevin, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Lee, Mr. Levin, 
  Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. 
 Lofgren, Mr. Lowenthal, Mrs. Lowey, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New 
  Mexico, Mr. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. Carolyn B. 
   Maloney of New York, Ms. Matsui, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McEachin, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Meeks, Ms. Moore, Mr. Moulton, Mrs. Murphy of Florida, 
  Mr. Nadler, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Panetta, Mr. 
   Payne, Mr. Perlmutter, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Price of North 
  Carolina, Mr. Raskin, Miss Rice of New York, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Roybal-
Allard, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Sablan, Mr. Sarbanes, 
 Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
 Serrano, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Sires, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. 
Soto, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thompson 
  of California, Ms. Titus, Mr. Tonko, Mrs. Torres, Ms. Tsongas, Ms. 
   Velazquez, Mr. Walz, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Maxine Waters of 
California, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mrs. Dingell, 
 Mr. Doggett, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Foster, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, 
Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Meng, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Rush, 
Mr. Schrader, and Ms. Speier) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the possession or transfer of certain firearm accessories, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON POSSESSION OF CERTAIN FIREARM ACCESSORIES.

    Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in section 922, by inserting after subsection (u) the 
        following:
    ``(v)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), on and after the date 
that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, it 
shall be unlawful for any person to import, sell, manufacture, 
transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a 
trigger crank, a bump-fire device, or any part, combination of parts, 
component, device, attachment, or accessory that is designed or 
functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic rifle but 
not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun.
    ``(2) This subsection does not apply with respect to the 
importation for, manufacture for, sale to, transfer to, or possession 
by or under the authority of, the United States or any department or 
agency thereof or a State, or a department, agency, or political 
subdivision thereof.''; and
            (2) in section 924(a)(2), by striking ``, or (o)'' and 
        inserting ``(o), or (v)''.
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