PRINTER'S NO. 1929
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1527
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY ZABEL, KIRKLAND, HOHENSTEIN, RABB, KINSEY,
SHUSTERMAN, McNEILL, SCHLOSSBERG, CALTAGIRONE, FREEMAN,
WILLIAMS, WARREN, McCLINTON, DALEY, SCHWEYER, MADDEN,
WEBSTER, VITALI, INNAMORATO, McCARTER AND ULLMAN,
MAY 30, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MAY 30, 2019
AN ACT
Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
articles, providing for purchase and sale of firearm parts
without a serial number and for manufacturing or facilitating
the manufacture of firearm using three-dimensional printer.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding sections to read:
§ 6110.3. Purchase and sale of firearm parts without a serial
number.
(a) General rule.--A person who sells or, with the purpose
to manufacture or otherwise assemble a firearm and without being
registered or licensed to do so under 18 U.S.C. § 923(a)
(relating to licensing), purchases or otherwise obtains
separately or as part of a kit a firearm frame or firearm
receiver which is not imprinted with a serial number registered
with a federally licensed manufacturer or any combination of
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parts from which a firearm without a serial number may be
readily or otherwise assembled, but which does not have the
capacity to function as a firearm unless manufactured or
otherwise assembled, commits a felony of the second degree.
(b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Firearm frame or firearm receiver." The part of a firearm
that provides housing for the firearm's internal components,
such as the hammer, bolt or breechblock, action and firing
mechanism, and includes, without limitation, any object or part
which is not such part in finished form but is designed or
intended to be used for that purpose and which may readily have
been made into such part or recovered through milling or other
means.
§ 6110.4. Manufacturing or facilitating the manufacture of
firearm using three-dimensional printer.
(a) General rule.--No person may:
(1) use a three-dimensional printer or similar device to
manufacture or produce a firearm receiver, magazine or
firearm component; or
(2) distribute by any means, including the Internet, to
a person in Pennsylvania digital instructions in the form of
computer-aided design files or other code or instructions
stored and displayed in electronic format as a digital model
that may be used to program a three-dimensional printer to
manufacture or produce a firearm or any firearm component.
(b) Penalty.--A person who violates this section commits a
felony of the second degree.
(c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
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words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Distribute." To sell or to manufacture, give, provide,
lend, trade, mail, deliver, publish, circulate, disseminate,
present, exhibit, display, share, advertise, offer or make
available via the Internet or by any other means, whether for
pecuniary gain or not, and includes an agreement or attempt to
engage in such activity.
"Firearm component." A part or parts used separately or as
part of a kit which do not have the capacity to function as a
firearm unless assembled with a firearm frame or firearm
receiver.
"Firearm frame or firearm receiver." As defined in section
6110.3.
"Three-dimensional printer." A computer or computer-driven
machine or device capable of producing a three-dimensional
object from a digital model.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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