Second Amendment Protection Act

Bill: 118-hr-363
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Mooney, Alexander X. [R-WV-2]
Introduced: 2023-01-13
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Alternative treatments

Drug trafficking and controlled substances

Firearms and explosives

Retail and wholesale trades
Latest action: action_date: 2023-01-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-13
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Second Amendment Protection Act </b></p> <p>This bill exempts certain individuals who use medical marijuana from federal firearms-related restrictions.</p> <p>Currently, federal firearms laws prohibit an individual who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing a firearm or ammunition. This bill exempts from the prohibition an individual who uses marijuana for a medical purpose in accordance with state law.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 363 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 13, 2023 Mr. Mooney (for himself, Mr. Massie , and Mr. Mast ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the sale, purchase, shipment, receipt, or possession of a firearm or ammunition by a user of medical marijuana, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Protection Act . 2. Exemptions for medical marihauna use from grounds for firearm and ammunition prohibitions (a) Exemption for medical marihuana Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (d)(3), by inserting before the semicolon the following: (except that an individual shall not be treated as an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance based on the individual using marihuana for a medical purpose in accordance with State law) ; and (2) in subsection (g)(3), by inserting before the semicolon the following: (except that an individual shall not be treated as an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance based on the individual using marihuana for a medical purpose in accordance with State law) . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.