Firearms
Alabama Regular Session 2024
Firearms, to provide for do-not-sell list [HB-37]
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Firearms, to provide for do-not-sell list
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Ensler
Read First Time In House Of Origin on 02/06/2024
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Firearms, to prohibit parts converting a firearm into a machine gun, with exceptions [HB-48]
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Firearms, to prohibit parts converting a firearm into a machine gun, with exceptions
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Ensler
Read First Time In House Of Origin on 02/06/2024
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Alabama Regular Session 2024
Firearms, to prohibit parts converting a firearm into a machine gun [HB-36]
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Firearms, to prohibit parts converting a firearm into a machine gun
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Ensler
Read For The Second Time And Placed On The Calendar on 05/07/2024
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Alabama Regular Session 2024
Red Flag Protective Order Act, established; to provide for the issuance of ex parte red flag protective orders and one-year red flag protective orders [HB-49]
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Red Flag Protective Order Act, established; to provide for the issuance of ex parte red flag protective orders and one-year red flag protective orders
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Ensler
Read First Time In House Of Origin on 02/06/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms or explosive materials; carrying into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth. [SB-583]
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Carrying a firearm or explosive material into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth; exception for highway rest areas. Provides that the prohibition on carrying a firearm or explosive material in any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth shall not apply to any highway rest area.
Sponsored by: Sen. J.D. Diggs
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (9-y 6-n) on 01/29/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearm industry members; creates standards of responsible conduct, civil liability. [SB-491]
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Firearm industry members; standards of responsible conduct; civil liability. Creates standards of responsible conduct for firearm industry members and requires such members to establish and implement reasonable controls regarding the manufacture, sale, distribution, use, and marketing of the firearm industry member's firearm-related products, as those terms are defined in the bill. Such reasonable controls include reasonable procedures, safeguards, and business practices that are designed to (i) prevent the sale or distribution of a firearm-related
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk, penalties. [SB-639]
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Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Repeals the procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge or magistrate for an emergency substantial risk order to prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm. The bill also removes the substantial risk order registry for the entry of orders issued.
Sponsored by: Sen. Glen Sturtevant
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (9-y 6-n) on 01/22/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Purchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of training course. [SB-522]
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Purchase of firearms; demonstrated competence with a firearm or completion of a firearms safety or training course; penalty. Requires that a prospective purchaser of a firearm present proof that such prospective purchaser has demonstrated competence with a firearm or completed a firearms safety or training course, as specified in the bill, within the past five years.
Sponsored by: Sen. Suhas Subramanyam
Failed To Pass In Senate on 03/09/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms; purchase, etc., following an assault and battery of a family or household member, etc. [SB-642]
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Purchase, possession, or transportation of firearm; assault and battery of a family or household member or intimate partner; penalties. Adds to the existing definition of "family or household member" a person's intimate partner, defined in the bill as an individual who, within the previous 12 months, was in a romantic, dating, or sexual relationship with the person. The bill also provides that any person who knowingly and intentionally purchases, possesses, or transports any firearm following a misdemeanor conviction for an offense that occurred
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Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Favola
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms; two day waiting period, penalty. [SB-551]
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Purchase of firearms; waiting period; penalty. Provides that no person shall sell a firearm unless at least two days have elapsed from the time the prospective purchaser completes the written consent form to have a licensed dealer obtain criminal history record information, with exceptions enumerated in relevant law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Creigh Deeds
Incorporated By Courts Of Justice on 01/22/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. [SB-447]
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Firearm in unattended motor vehicle; civil penalty. Provides that no person shall leave, place, or store a handgun in an unattended motor vehicle, as defined in the bill, when such handgun is visible to any person who is outside such motor vehicle. The bill provides that any person violating such prohibition is subject to a civil penalty of no more than $500 and such unattended motor vehicle may be subject to removal for safekeeping.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Senate Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms, certain; criminal history record information check required for transfer. [HB-1325]
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Criminal history record information check required for the transfer of certain firearms. Eliminates the requirement that firearms dealers must mail or deliver the written criminal history information record check consent to the Department of State Police on the last day of the week following the sale or transfer of any firearm.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim Taylor
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearm or explosive material; carrying within Capitol Square & surrounding area, etc., exceptions. [HB-1321]
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Carrying a firearm or explosive material within Capitol Square and the surrounding area, into a building owned or leased by the Commonwealth, etc.; exceptions for law-enforcement officers. Adds an exception for off-duty law-enforcement officers to the prohibition of carrying a firearm within any building owned or leased by the Commonwealth or any agency thereof or any office where employees of the Commonwealth or any agency thereof are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
School board employees, certain; possession of firearms on school property. [HB-1230]
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Certain school board employees; possession of firearms on school property. Permits any school board to authorize any school board employee to possess a firearm on school property, in addition to those individuals expressly authorized to possess such a firearm as otherwise provided in statute, provided that any school board employee so authorized by the school board receives advanced firearms training in accordance with criteria established by the Department of Criminal Justice Services. The bill requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eric Zehr
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Concealed handguns; protective orders. [HB-1235]
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Carrying concealed handguns; protective orders. Authorizes any person 21 years of age or older who is not prohibited from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm and is protected by an unexpired protective order to carry a concealed handgun for 45 days after the protective order was issued. The bill provides that if the person issued the protective order applies for a concealed handgun permit during such 45-day period, such person will be authorized to carry a concealed handgun for an additional 45 days and be given a copy of the certified
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Green
Continued To 2025 In Public Safety By Voice Vote on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearm; removing, altering, selling, etc., or possessing w/removed, etc., serial number, penalty. [SB-363]
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Removing, altering, etc., serial number on firearm; selling, giving, etc., or possessing firearm with removed, altered, etc., serial number; penalties. Makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly possess any pistol, shotgun, rifle, machine gun, or any other firearm, except for an antique firearm, that has a serial number that has been removed, altered, changed, destroyed, or obliterated in any manner. The bill also makes it a Class 6 felony for any person, firm, association, or corporation to knowingly
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0786) on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Enhanced earned sentence credits; eligibility of person convicted of firearm-related offense. [HB-1179]
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Enhanced earned sentence credits; exemptions; firearm-related offense; felony conviction while a prisoner. Removes any person convicted of a felony offense involving a firearm from eligibility for enhanced earned sentence credits and restricts any person convicted of a felony for an offense that occurred while a prisoner in a local, state, or community correctional facility from receiving any further earned sentence credits.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Wyatt
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/13/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Assault firearms; age requirement for purchase, penalty. [HB-1174]
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Purchase of certain firearms; age requirement; penalty. Prohibits any person under 21 years of age from purchasing a handgun or assault firearm, with exceptions for the purchase of an assault firearm by a law-enforcement officer, correctional officer, jail officer, or member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the Virginia National Guard, or the National Guard of any other state. Accordingly, the bill prohibits a licensed dealer from selling, renting, trading, or transferring from his inventory a handgun or assault firearm to any person under
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Sponsored by: Rep. Betsy Carr
House Sustained Governor's Veto on 04/17/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearm safety device; expands definition of device. [HB-945]
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Firearm safety device tax credit; definition of firearm safety device. Expands the definition of "firearm safety device" as it relates to the firearm safety device tax credit to include any device that, when installed on a firearm, is designed to prevent the firearm from being operated without first deactivating the device.
Sponsored by: Rep. Alfonso Lopez
Incorporated By Public Safety on 02/02/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Firearms and ammunition; property rights in parking areas owned or controlled by the Commonwealth. [HB-872]
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Property rights in parking areas owned or controlled by the Commonwealth; firearms and ammunition. Provides that with certain exceptions the Commonwealth shall not adopt or enforce any statute or regulation that prevents an employee, visitor, or contractor from storing a lawfully possessed firearm and ammunition in a locked private motor vehicle parked at any parking area owned or controlled by the Commonwealth. The bill also provides that any previously enacted statutes, promulgated regulations, policies, or rules that are inconsistent with the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Left In Public Safety on 02/13/2024