Title: High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act
This bill provides statutory authority for restrictions on the possession or transfer of bump-stock-type devices and other parts capable of converting a firearm to automatically shoot multiple rounds without manual reloading by a single function of the trigger.
It also makes it a crime to import, manufacture, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive parts or accessories designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a semiautomatic firearm without converting it to a fully automatic firearm. An individual who violates this provision is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to 10 years, or both.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3606 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3606

 To prohibit bump stocks and other devices designed to accelerate the 
                rate of fire of a semiautomatic weapon.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 2, 2019

   Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Ms. Titus, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. 
 Khanna, Ms. Norton, Mr. Suozzi, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Watson Coleman, 
  Mr. Swalwell of California, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Sires, Mr. 
 Welch, Mr. Rose of New York, Mr. Cisneros, Ms. Shalala, Ms. DeLauro, 
    Mr. Morelle, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Hill of California, Mr. Levin of 
 Michigan, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mrs. Demings, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, 
Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Neguse, 
 Mr. Case, Mr. Hastings, and Ms. Meng) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit bump stocks and other devices designed to accelerate the 
                rate of fire of a semiautomatic weapon.

    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 ``High Speed Gunfire Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. BUMP STOCKS AND ACCELERATION DEVICES.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by adding at the end of subsection (o) the following:
            ``(3)(A) The term `machinegun' means any weapon which 
        shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to 
        shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual 
        reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall 
        also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part 
        designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of 
        parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon 
        into a machinegun, any combination of parts from which a 
        machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession 
        or under the control of a person, and any bump-stock-type 
        device, i.e., a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to 
        shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger by 
        harnessing the recoil energy of the semiautomatic weapon to 
        which it is affixed so that the trigger resets and continues 
        firing without additional physical manipulation of the trigger 
        by the shooter.
            ``(B) The term `automatically' as it modifies `shoots, is 
        designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot,' means 
        functioning as the result of a self-acting or self-regulating 
        mechanism that allows the firing of multiple rounds through a 
        single function of the trigger; and `single function of the 
        trigger' means a single pull of the trigger and analogous 
        motions.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(aa)(1) Acceleration Devices.--It shall be unlawful for any 
person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, 
or receive, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, any part, 
combination of parts, component, device, attachment, or accessory that 
is designed and functions to accelerate the rate of fire of a 
semiautomatic firearm but not convert the semiautomatic firearm into a 
machinegun.
    ``(2) Exceptions.--Paragraph (1) of this subsection shall not apply 
to--
            ``(A) the otherwise lawful possession of a device before 
        the date that is 90 days after this subsection takes effect, 
        provided that the device is destroyed or disposed of within 
        that 90-day period;
            ``(B) the importation, manufacture, possession, or receipt 
        of such devices by or for, or shipment, sale, or transfer of 
        such devices for or to, the United States, a department or 
        agency of the United States, a State, or a department, agency, 
        or political subdivision of a State, for the purposes of 
        testing or experimentation authorized by the Attorney General; 
        or
            ``(C) a part that designed and functions to replace a part 
        of a firearm that has been damaged or that has reduced 
        functionality due to normal wear and tear, regardless of 
        whether that part improves the performance or functionality of 
        the firearm beyond its original performance and 
        functionality.''.
    (b) Penalties.--Section 924(a)(2) of such title is amended by 
striking ``or (o)'' and inserting ``(o), or (aa)''.
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