Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act

Federal Firearms Licensee Protection Act

This bill modifies provisions related to theft of firearms.

Under current law, it is unlawful to steal a firearm from a licensed importer, manufacturer, or dealer, or from their business premises. This bill broadens the scope of unlawful conduct to also prohibit stealing a firearm from a gun range that rents firearms or a shooting club.

An attempt to commit an offense is subject to the same penalties as a substantive offense. The bill modifies these penalties by increasing the maximum prison term.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2179 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2179

    To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance 
penalties for certain thefts of a firearm from certain Federal firearms 
 licensees, and to criminalize the theft of a firearm from a gun range 
                that rents firearms or a shooting club.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2019

Mr. Lamb (for himself, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Van Drew, and Mr. Crenshaw) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to enhance 
penalties for certain thefts of a firearm from certain Federal firearms 
 licensees, and to criminalize the theft of a firearm from a gun range 
                that rents firearms or a shooting club.

    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 ``Federal Firearms Licensee Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO ENHANCE PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN THEFTS OF A FIREARM 
              FROM CERTAIN FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSEES.

    Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (i) and inserting the following:
    ``(i) A person who knowingly violates section 922(u), or attempts 
to do so, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 
years, or both.''; and
            (2) in subsection (m), by inserting ``, or attempts to do 
        so,'' after ``or licensed collector''.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON THEFT OF FIREARM FROM GUN RANGE THAT RENTS 
              FIREARMS OR SHOOTING CLUB.

    Section 922(u) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(u)''; and
            (2) by adding after and below the end the following:
    ``(2) It shall be unlawful for a person to steal or unlawfully take 
or carry away from the premises of a gun range at which a firearm may 
be rented or of a shooting club, any firearm that has been shipped or 
transported in interstate or foreign commerce.''.
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