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Lopinto HB No. 17
Abstract: Provides for an affirmative defense for the crime of illegal possession of stolen
firearms and amends the elements of this crime.
Present law provides for the crime of illegal possession of stolen firearms.
Present law provides that illegal possession of stolen firearms is the intentional possessing,
procuring, receiving, or concealing of a firearm which has been the subject of any robbery or
theft under circumstances which indicate that the offender knew or should have known that the
firearm was the subject of a robbery or theft.
Proposed law changes the elements of the crime to include any misappropriation and not only
robbery or theft.
Proposed law further provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution for illegal
possession of stolen firearms that the offender had no knowledge that the firearm was the subject
of any form of misappropriation.
(Amends R.S. 14:69.1(A))