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Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Firearms Heritage Protection Act of
1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.

(a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
(1) Citizens have a right, under the Second Amendment to
the United States Constitution, to keep and bear arms.
(2) Lawsuits have been commenced against manufacturers,
distributors, dealers, and importers of nondefective firearms,
which seek money damages and other relief for the harm caused
by the misuse of firearms by third parties, including
criminals.
(3) The manufacture, importation, possession, sale, and use
of firearms and ammunition in the United States is heavily
regulated by Federal, State, and local laws. Such Federal laws
include the Gun Control Act of 1968, the National Firearms Act,
and the Arms Export Control Act.
(4) Businesses in the United States that are engaged in
interstate and foreign commerce through the lawful design,
marketing, distribution, manufacture, importation, or sale to
the public of firearms or ammunition that have been shipped or
transported in interstate or foreign commerce are not, and
should not be, liable for the harm caused by those who
criminally or unlawfully misuse firearm products or ammunition
products.
(5) The possibility of imposing liability on an entire
industry for harm that is the sole responsibility of others is
an abuse of the legal system, erodes public confidence our
Nation's laws, threatens the diminution of a basic
constitutional right, invites the disassembly and
destabilization of other industries and economic sectors
lawfully competing in America's free enterprise system, and
constitutes an unreasonable burden on interstate and foreign
commerce.
(6) The liability actions commenced or contemplated by
municipalities and cities are based on theories without
foundation in hundreds of years of the common law and American
jurisprudence. The possible sustaining of these actions by a
maverick judicial officer would expand civil liability in a
manner never contemplated by the Framers of the Constitution.
The Congress further finds that such an expansion of liability
would constitute a deprivation of the rights, privileges, and
immunities guaranteed to a citizen of the United States under
the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are as follows:
(1) To prohibit causes of action against manufacturers,
distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms or ammunition
products for the harm caused by the criminal or unlawful misuse
of firearm products or ammunition products by others.
(2) To preserve a citizen's access to a supply of firearms
and ammunition for all lawful purposes, including hunting,
self-defense, collecting, and competitive or recreational
shooting.
(3) To guarantee a citizen's rights, privileges, and
immunities, as applied to the States, under the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution, pursuant to
section five of that Amendment.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON BRINGING OF QUALIFIED CIVIL LIABILITY ACTIONS IN
FEDERAL OR STATE COURT.

(a) In General.--A qualified civil liability action may not be
brought in any Federal or State court.
(b) Dismissal of Pending Actions.--A qualified civil liability
action that is pending on the date of the enactment of this Act shall
be dismissed immediately by the court in which the action was brought.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Manufacturer.--The term ''manufacturer'' means, with
respect to a qualified product--
(A) a person who is engaged in a business to
import, make, produce, create, or assemble a qualified
product, and who designs or formulates, or has engaged
another person to design or formulate, a qualified
product;
(B) a seller of a qualified product, but only with
respect to an aspect of the product that is made or
affected when the seller makes, produces, creates, or
assembles and designs or formulates an aspect of the
product made by another person; and
(C) any seller of a qualified product who
represents to a user of a qualified product that the
seller is a manufacturer of the qualified product.
(2) Person.--The term ''person'' means any individual,
corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society,
joint stock company, or any other entity, including any
governmental entity.
(3) Qualified product.--The term ''qualified product''
means a firearm (as defined in section 921(a)(3) of title 18,
United States Code) or ammunition (as defined in section
921(a)(17) of such title), or a component part of a firearm or
ammunition, that has been shipped or transported in interstate
or foreign commerce.
(4) Qualified civil liability action.--The term ''qualified
civil liability action'' means a civil action brought by any
person against a manufacturer or seller of a qualified product,
or a trade association, for damages resulting from the criminal
or unlawful misuse of a qualified product by the person or a
third party, but shall not include an action brought against a
transferor convicted under section 924(h) of title 18, United
States Code, or a comparable or identical State felony law, by
a party directly harmed by the conduct of which the transferee
is so convicted.
(5) Seller.--The term ''seller'' means, with respect to a
qualified product, a person who--
(A) in the course of a business conducted for that
purpose sells, distributes, rents, leases, prepares,
blends, packages, labels, or otherwise is involved in
placing a qualified product in the stream of commerce;
or
(B) installs, repairs, refurbishes, reconditions,
or maintains an aspect of a qualified product that is
alleged to have resulted in damages.
(6) State.--The term ''State'' includes each of the several
States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American
Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
and any other territory or possession of the United States, and
any political subdivision of any such place.
(7) Trade association.--The term ''trade association''
means any association or business organization (whether or not
incorporated under Federal or State law) 2 or more members of
which are manufacturers or sellers of a qualified product.
Output:
Firearms Heritage Protection Act of 1999 - Prohibits civil actions from being brought against a manufacturer or seller of a firearm or ammunition, or a component thereof, that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce (a firearm), or a trade association of such manufacturers or sellers, for damages resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse of a firearm. Requires dismissal of any such action that is pending on the date of this Act's enactment.
Specifies an exception with respect to actions against persons who transfer a firearm knowing that it will be used to commit a crime of violence or a drug trafficking crime.