Title: Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:


Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act
This bill amends the federal criminal code to expand the categories of prohibited persons (i.e., persons who are prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm or ammunition) to include the following: (1) persons convicted of a crime of violence in the most recent 10-year period; (2) persons under age 25 who have been adjudicated as having committed an offense that would have been a crime of violence if committed by an adult; (3) persons convicted, during a consecutive 3-year period in the most recent 10-year period, of two separate offenses involving drug or alcohol possession or distribution; and (4) persons convicted of stalking.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5163 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5163

 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 
    sale or other disposition of a firearm to, and the possession, 
 shipment, transportation, or receipt of a firearm by, certain classes 
                       of high-risk individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2018

 Ms. Kelly of Illinois (for herself, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Yarmuth, Ms. 
Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Takano, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of 
   Pennsylvania, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. 
 Cummings, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. 
Plaskett, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Moulton, Ms. Norton, and Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 
    sale or other disposition of a firearm to, and the possession, 
 shipment, transportation, or receipt of a firearm by, certain classes 
                       of high-risk individuals.

    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 ``Keeping Guns from High-Risk 
Individuals Act''.

SEC. 2. FIREARM PROHIBITIONS APPLICABLE WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN HIGH-
              RISK INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) Sales or Other Dispositions.--Section 922(d) of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended in the first sentence--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (8);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (9) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) in the most recent 10-year period, has been 
        convicted in any court of a crime of violence (as defined in 
        section 16);
            ``(11) has not attained 25 years of age, and has been 
        adjudicated by any court as having committed an offense that 
        would have been a crime of violence (as defined in section 16) 
        if committed by an adult;
            ``(12) in any period of 3 consecutive years in the most 
        recent 10-year period, has been convicted in any court, on 2 
        separate occasions, of an offense that has, as an element, the 
        possession or distribution of, or the intent to possess or 
        distribute, alcohol or a controlled substance (as so defined); 
        or
            ``(13) has been convicted in any court of stalking.''.
    (b) Possession, Shipment, Transportation, or Receipt.--Section 
922(g) of such title is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of paragraph (8);
            (2) by striking the comma at the end of paragraph (9) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (9) the following:
            ``(10) who, in the most recent 10-year period, has been 
        convicted in any court of a crime of violence (as defined in 
        section 16);
            ``(11) who has not attained 25 years of age and has been 
        adjudicated by any court as having committed an offense that 
        would have been a crime of violence (as defined in section 16) 
        if committed by an adult;
            ``(12) who, in any period of 3 consecutive years in the 
        most recent 10-year period, has been convicted in any court, on 
        2 separate occasions, of an offense that has, as an element, 
        the possession or distribution of, or the intent to possess or 
        distribute, alcohol or a controlled substance (as so defined); 
        or
            ``(13) who has been convicted in any court of stalking,''.
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