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                                                       PRINTER'S NO. 903

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 784 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BARRAR, BOYD, CURRY, EVERETT, FRANKEL,
           GEIST, GOODMAN, HERSHEY, HICKERNELL, KENNEY, KILLION,
           MAHONEY, MANN, O'NEILL, PICKETT, RAYMOND, ROAE, RUBLEY,
           SABATINA, SAYLOR, SCHRODER, SONNEY, WATSON, WHEATLEY,
           WILLIAMS, YOUNGBLOOD AND MURT, MARCH 19, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 19, 2007

                                     AN ACT

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

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 6111(g)(2) and (h) heading and (1) of
     7  Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended
     8  and subsection (h) is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
     9  § 6111.  Sale or transfer of firearms.
    10     * * *
    11     (g)  Penalties.--
    12         * * *
    13         (2)  Any person, licensed dealer, licensed manufacturer
    14     or licensed importer who knowingly or intentionally sells,
    15     delivers or transfers a firearm under circumstances intended
    16     to provide a firearm to any person, purchaser or transferee
    17     who is unqualified or ineligible to control, possess or use a

     1     firearm under this chapter [commits a felony of the third
     2     degree and shall in addition be subject to revocation of the
     3     license to sell firearms for a period of three years.] shall
     4     be punished as provided in subsection (h).
     5         * * *
     6     (h)  [Subsequent violation penalty] Mandatory minimum
     7  sentence.--
     8         (1)  [A second or subsequent violation of this section
     9     shall be a felony of the second degree and shall be
    10     punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment of
    11     five years. A second or subsequent offense shall also result
    12     in permanent revocation of any license to sell, import or
    13     manufacture a firearm.] The following violations shall be a
    14     felony of the second degree and shall be punishable by a
    15     mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment of five years:
    16             (i)  a second or subsequent violation of this
    17         section, regardless of whether a firearm was involved; or
    18             (ii)  a violation of subsection (g)(2).
    19         (1.1)  A violation under paragraph (1)(i) or (ii) shall
    20     also result in the permanent revocation of any license to
    21     sell, import or manufacture a firearm.
    22         * * *
    23     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.





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