Title: Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act
This bill revises the prohibition on undetectable firearms.
Specifically, the bill prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of (1) any firearm that, after removal of all parts other than major components, is not as detectable by walk-through metal detectors as the Security Exemplar (an object fabricated for the testing and calibration of metal detectors); or (2) any major component of a firearm that is undetectable by detection devices commonly used at airports for security screenings.
The bill exempts from this prohibition (1) a prototype firearm for detectability testing; (2) any firearm received by, in the possession of, or under the control of the United States; or (3) the manufacture, importation, possession, transfer, receipt, shipment, or delivery of a firearm by a licensed manufacturer or licensed importer pursuant to an existing contract with the United States.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 869 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 869

          To modernize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 30, 2019

 Ms. Dean (for herself, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Cohen, Ms. 
   Norton, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. Trone, Ms. Houlahan, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. 
    Raskin, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mrs. McBath, Mr. Soto, Mr. 
  Cardenas, and Mr. Michael F. Doyle of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
          To modernize the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988.

    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 ``Undetectable Firearms Modernization 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODERNIZATION OF THE PROHIBITION ON UNDETECTABLE FIREARMS.

    Section 922(p) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``grips, 
                stocks, and magazines'' and inserting ``all parts other 
                than major components''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``when 
                subjected to inspection by the types of x-ray machines 
                commonly used at airports, does not generate'' and 
                inserting the following: ``if subjected to inspection 
                by the types of detection devices commonly used at 
                airports for security screening, would not generate'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(B) the term `major component', with respect to a 
        firearm--
                    ``(i) means the slide or cylinder, or the frame or 
                receiver of the firearm; and
                    ``(ii) in the case of a rifle or shotgun, includes 
                the barrel of the firearm; and''; and
                    (B) by striking subparagraph (C) and the proviso 
                that follows and inserting the following:
            ``(C) the term `Security Exemplar' means an object, to be 
        fabricated at the direction of the Attorney General, that is--
                    ``(i) constructed of 3.7 ounces of material type 
                17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling a 
                handgun; and
                    ``(ii) suitable for testing and calibrating metal 
                detectors.'';
            (3) in paragraph (3)--
                            (A) in the first sentence, by inserting 
                        after ``of a firearm'' the following: ``, 
                        including a prototype,''; and
                            (B) by striking the second sentence; and
            (4) in paragraph (5), by striking ``shall not apply to any 
        firearm which'' and all that follows and inserting the 
        following: ``shall not apply to--
            ``(A) any firearm received by, in the possession of, or 
        under the control of the United States; or
            ``(B) the manufacture, importation, possession, transfer, 
        receipt, shipment, or delivery of a firearm by a licensed 
        manufacturer or licensed importer pursuant to an existing 
        contract with the United States.''.
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