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HB36
Q6L2545-2
By Representative Ensler
RFD: Judiciary
First Read: 06-Feb-24
PFD: 12-Jan-24
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PFD: 12-Jan-24
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to firearms; to prohibit persons from
possessing a firearm that has a part or combination of parts
designed or intended to convert a firearm into a machine gun
installed on or attached to the firearm; to provide penalties
for violations.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) For the purposes of this section, the
term "machine gun" has the same meaning as provided in 26
U.S.C. ยง 5845.
(b) No person shall knowingly own or have in his or her
possession, control, care, or custody a pistol that has a part
or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a
firearm into a machine gun installed on or attached to the
pistol.
(c) A violation of this section is a Class C felony.
(d) This section does not apply to either of the
following:
(1) A state or local law enforcement officer while
acting in an official capacity.
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acting in an official capacity.
(2) A person who owns or has in his or her possession,
control, care, or custody a firearm, part, or combination of
part that are registered in the National Firearms Registration
and Transfer Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives or is otherwise not subject
to that registration requirement.
(3) Any part, combination of parts, or device designed
or intended to increase a pistol's rate of fire but that does
not enable a semiautomatic pistol to fire more than one shot,
without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2024.
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1, 2024.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Judiciary
................06-Feb-24
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
1 amendment
................21-Feb-24
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
................30-Apr-24
Yeas 60
Nays 38
Abstains 2
John Treadwell
Clerk
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