SAGA Act

Second Amendment Guarantee Act or the SAGA Act

This bill prohibits a state or local government from establishing a regulation, prohibition, or registration or licensing requirement with respect to a rifle or shotgun that is more restrictive (or that imposes a greater penalty) than federal law.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1072 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1072

To amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the authority of States 
 and localities to regulate conduct, or impose penalties or taxes, in 
                    relation to rifles or shotguns.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2019

 Mr. Collins of New York (for himself, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. 
Zeldin, Mr. Duncan, and Mr. Reed) introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to limit the authority of States 
 and localities to regulate conduct, or impose penalties or taxes, in 
                    relation to rifles or shotguns.

    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 ``Second Amendment Guarantee Act'' or 
the ``SAGA Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OF STATES AND LOCALITIES TO REGULATE 
              CONDUCT IN RELATION TO RIFLES OR SHOTGUNS.

    Section 927 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``No'' and inserting ``(a) Except as 
        provided in subsection (b), no''; and
            (2) by adding after and below the end the following:
    ``(b)(1) A State or a political subdivision of a State may not 
impose any regulation, prohibition, or registration or licensing 
requirement with respect to the design, manufacture, importation, sale, 
transfer, possession, or marking of a rifle or shotgun that has moved 
in, or any such conduct that affects, interstate or foreign commerce, 
that is more restrictive, or impose any penalty, tax, fee, or charge 
with respect to such a rifle or shotgun or such conduct, in an amount 
greater, than is provided under Federal law. To the extent that a law 
of a State or political subdivision of a State, whether enacted before, 
on, or after the date of the enactment of this subsection, violates the 
preceding sentence, the law shall have no force or effect. For purposes 
of this subsection, the term `rifle or shotgun' includes any part of a 
rifle or shotgun, any detachable magazine or ammunition feeding device, 
and any type of pistol grip or stock design.
    ``(2) In an action brought for damages or relief from a violation 
of paragraph (1), the court shall award the prevailing plaintiff a 
reasonable attorney's fee in addition to any other damages or relief 
awarded.''.
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