Title: Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns Act of 2020
This bill prohibits and penalizes the transfer, possession, or purchase of a firearm manufacturing machine; this prohibition does not apply to licensed manufacturers. A firearm manufacturing machine is a device that is intended to make or convert a product into a frame or receiver for a firearm.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7468 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7468

To amend title 18, United States Code, to impose prohibitions relating 
 to machines designed for the manufacturing of frames or receivers for 
                               firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2020

  Mr. Raskin (for himself and Mr. Cicilline) introduced the following 
       bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to impose prohibitions relating 
 to machines designed for the manufacturing of frames or receivers for 
                               firearms.

    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 ``Stop Home Manufacture of Ghost Guns 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO FIREARM MANUFACTURING MACHINES.

    (a) Prohibitions.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(aa)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, in or affecting 
interstate or foreign commerce, to transfer or offer to transfer to any 
person other than a licensed manufacturer a firearm manufacturing 
machine.
    ``(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), it shall be 
unlawful for any person other than a licensed manufacturer, in or 
affecting interstate or foreign commerce, to possess or purchase a 
firearm manufacturing machine.
    ``(B) Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a person who is engaged 
in the business of selling manufacturing equipment to a licensed 
manufacturer, and who possesses a firearm manufacturing machine with 
the intent to transfer the machine to a licensed manufacturer.''.
    (b) Definition of Firearm Manufacturing Machine.--Section 921(a) of 
such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(36) The term `firearm manufacturing machine' means--
            ``(A) a device designed or redesigned, made or remade, and 
        intended to be used primarily to make, or convert a product 
        into, a frame or receiver for a firearm; and
            ``(B) any combination of parts designed or intended for use 
        in making a device described in subparagraph (A) and from which 
        such a device may be readily assembled.''.
    (c) Penalties.--Section 924 of such title is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1)(B), by striking ``or (q)'' and 
        inserting ``(q), or (aa)'';
            (2) in subsection (d)(1)--
                    (A) by inserting ``and any firearm manufacturing 
                machine involved in any knowing violation of section 
                922(aa),'' before ``shall be subject''; and
                    (B) by striking ``firearms or ammunition'' each 
                place it appears and inserting ``firearms, ammunition, 
                or firearm manufacturing machine''; and
            (3) in subsection (d)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``firearms or 
                ammunition'' and inserting ``firearms, ammunition, and 
                firearm manufacturing machines''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``firearms or 
                quantities of ammunition'' and inserting ``firearms, 
                quantities of ammunition, or firearm manufacturing 
                machines''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to conduct engaged in on or after January 1, 2022.
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