PRINTER'S NO. 141
No. 110 Special Session No. 1 of 1995
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, APRIL 25, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 25, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for altering or
3 obliterating marks of identification of firearms.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6117 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6117. Altering or obliterating marks of identification.
9 (a) Offense defined.--No person shall change, alter, remove,
10 or obliterate the [name of the maker, model,] manufacturer's
11 number[,] or other mark of identification [on] integral to the
12 frame or receiver of any firearm, rifle or shotgun.
13 (b) Presumption.--Possession of any firearm, rifle or
14 shotgun upon which any such mark integral to the frame or
15 receiver shall have been changed, altered, removed[,] or
16 obliterated[,] shall be prima facie evidence that the possessor
17 has changed, altered, removed[,] or obliterated the same.
18 (c) Penalty.--A violation of this section constitutes a
1 felony of the second degree.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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