Modern Firearm Safety Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9388 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9388

 To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain 
 features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore 
the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 20, 2024

   Mr. Issa (for himself, Ms. Stefanik, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 
 Harris, Mrs. Hinson, Mr. Collins, Mr. Gooden of Texas, Mr. Higgins of 
  Louisiana, and Mr. Biggs) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the imposition of requirements that handguns have certain 
 features generally absent from firearms in common use, and to restore 
the civil and natural rights of Americans in States hostile to liberty, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Modern Firearm Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPOSITION OF REQUIREMENTS THAT HANDGUNS HAVE 
              CERTAIN FEATURES GENERALLY ABSENT FROM FIREARMS IN COMMON 
              USE.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after section 927 the following:
``Sec. 927A. Prohibition on imposition of requirements that handguns 
              have certain features generally absent from firearms in 
              common use
    ``A department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or 
of any State or political subdivision of a State, may not implement or 
enforce any provision of law or regulation that requires or has the 
effect of requiring, or promulgate any provision of regulation that 
would require or have the effect of requiring, a handgun that is in, or 
has been shipped or transported in, interstate or foreign commerce to--
            ``(1) incorporate a device that indicates whether the 
        handgun is loaded;
            ``(2) incorporate a mechanism that prevents a handgun from 
        being fired if an ammunition magazine is not fully inserted 
        into the handgun;
            ``(3) be capable of microstamping the shell casing of 
        ammunition with microscopic characters representing the make, 
        model, and serial number of the handgun, when the ammunition is 
        fired from the handgun;
            ``(4) incorporate any device, mechanism, or technology 
        that--
                    ``(A) is designed or intended to perform any 
                function described in the preceding provisions of this 
                section; or
                    ``(B) may be readily converted to be capable of 
                performing any such function; or
            ``(5) be capable of accepting the attachment of any device 
        or mechanism described in paragraph (4).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections for such chapter is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 927 the 
following:

``927A. Prohibition on imposition of requirements that handguns have 
                            certain features generally absent from 
                            firearms in common use.''.
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