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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 7219
January Session, 2019
AN ACT CONCERNING GH OST GUNS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 29-36 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) No person shall complete the manufacture of a firearm without 3
(1) obtaining a unique serial number or other mark of identification 4
from the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection 5
pursuant to section 2 of this act, and (2) engraving upon or 6
permanently affixing to the firearm such serial number or other mark 7
in a manner that conforms with the requirements imposed on licensed 8
importers and licensed manufacturers of firearms pursuant to 18 USC 9
923(i), as amended from time to time, and any regulation adopted 10
thereunder. 11
(b) No individual shall manufacture any firearm from polymer 12
plastic that, after removal of grips, stocks and magazines, is not as 13
detectible as the Security Exemplar, by walk-through metal detectors 14
calibrated and operated to detect the Security Exemplar. For purposes 15
of this subsection, "firearm" does not include the frame or receiver of 16
any such weapon and "Security Exemplar" means an object that is (1) 17
constructed of 3.7 ounces of material type 17–4 PH stainless steel, in a 18
shape resembling a handgun, or such lesser amount of material which 19 Substitute Bill No. 7219
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the Attorney General of the United States determines is detectable in 20
view of advances in state-of-the-art developments in weapons 21
detection technology, and (2) suitable for testing and calibrating metal 22
detectors. 23
(c) Not later than thirty days after a person completes manufacture 24
of a firearm pursuant to this section, such person shall notify the 25
Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection of such 26
manufacture and provide any identifying information to the 27
department concerning the firearm and the owner of such firearm, in a 28
manner prescribed by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and 29
Public Protection. 30
[(a)] (d) No person shall remove, deface, alter or obliterate the name 31
of any maker or model or any maker's number, unique serial number 32
or other mark of identification on any firearm. [as defined in section 33
53a-3.] The possession of any firearm upon which any identifying 34
mark, number or name has been removed, defaced, altered or 35
obliterated shall be prima facie evidence that the person owning or in 36
possession of such firearm has removed, defaced, altered or obliterated 37
the same. 38
(e) No person shall transfer to another person any firearm 39
manufactured as described in this section, except as provided in 40
subdivision (3) of subsection (f) of this section. 41
(f) The provisions of this section shall not apply to (1) manufacture 42
of firearms by a federally licensed firearm manufacturer, (2) any 43
antique firearm, as defined in 18 USC 921, as amended from time to 44
time, or (3) delivery or transfer of a firearm to a law enforcement 45
agency. Any firearm delivered or transferred to a law enforcement 46
agency pursuant to this subsection shall be destroyed by the law 47
enforcement agency. 48
(g) No person shall facilitate, aid or abet the manufacture of a 49
firearm (1) by a person or for a person who is otherwise prohibited by 50 Substitute Bill No. 7219
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law from purchasing or possessing a firearm, or (2) that a person is 51
otherwise prohibited by law from purchasing or possessing. 52
[(b)] (h) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall 53
be guilty of a class C felony for which two years of the sentence 54
imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, and five 55
thousand dollars of the fine imposed may not be remitted or reduced 56
by the court unless the court states on the record its reasons for 57
remitting or reducing such fine, and any firearm found in the 58
possession of any person in violation of said provision shall be 59
forfeited. 60
(i) For purposes of this section, "manufacture " means to fabricate or 61
construct a firearm including the initial assembly, "firearm" means 62
firearm, as defined in section 53a-3, and "law enforcement agency" 63
means law enforcement agency, as defined in section 29-1i. 64
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than October 1, 2019, 65
the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall 66
develop and maintain a system to distribute a unique serial number or 67
other mark of identification to any individual requesting such number 68
or mark in accordance with section 29-36 of the general statutes, as 69
amended by this act. The department shall maintain identifying 70
information of the individual requesting the number or mark and of 71
the firearm for which each such number or mark is requested. 72
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 29-36
Sec. 2 from passage New section
Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1(b), "Attorney General" was changed to "Attorney General
of the United States" for clarity and to conform with 18 USC 922(p).
JUD Joint Favorable Subst. Substitute Bill No. 7219
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