Freedom From Fear Act

Bill: 114-hr-5615
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Grayson, Alan [D-FL-9]
Introduced: 2016-07-01
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Firearms and explosives
Latest action: action_date: 2016-07-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-07-01
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Freedom From Fear Act</b></p> <p> This bill reinstates repealed provisions of the federal criminal code that ban the manufacture, transfer, or possession of specified semiautomatic assault weapons.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5615 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 1, 2016 Mr. Grayson (for himself, Ms. Lee , and Ms. Brown of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To reinstate the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Freedom From Fear Act . 2. Reinstatement of ban on semiautomatic assault weapons Notwithstanding section 110105 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ( Public Law 103–322 ), sections 110102 and 110106 of such Act are hereby re-enacted into law, except that, in lieu of the matter to be inserted by the amendment made by section 110102(c)(1) of such Act, the matter to be inserted shall be (q), or (v) of section 922 .