PRINTER'S NO. 494

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 462 Session of 1979


        INTRODUCED BY HASAY, STUBAN, NOYE, GEIST, W. W. FOSTER, BITTLE,
           SPENCER, MACKOWSKI, KOLTER, WEIDNER, COSLETT AND KLINGAMAN,
           MARCH 5, 1979

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 5, 1979

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for antique
     3     firearms.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6118 of Title 18, act of November 25,
     7  1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     8  Statutes, is amended to read:
     9  § 6118.  Antique firearms.
    10     This subchapter shall not apply to antique firearms
    11  [unsuitable for use and possessed as curiosities or ornaments.]
    12  manufactured in or before 1898, or reproductions or replicas of
    13  firearms manufactured in or before 1898, or parts for same.
    14     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.



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