Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act

Bill: 115-hr-5163
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kelly, Robin L. [D-IL-2]
Introduced: 2018-03-05
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Assault and harassment offenses

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Firearms and explosives

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2018-04-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-03-05
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong></strong></p> <p> <p><b>Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act </b> <p>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.

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5163 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. Gutiérrez , 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals Act . 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, .