DATE CREATED: December 14, 2023
LAST ACTION DATE: 03/26/2024
LAST AMENDMENT DATE: 03/26/2024
PROGRESS: Signed/Enacted/Adopted
BILL ID: HB22
CATEGORIES: Justice, Budget and Finance
REGION: VA
Manufacture, importation, sale, etc., of auto sears; prohibition; penalty. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale or offer to sell, possession, transfer, or transportation of an auto sear, defined in the bill as a device, other than a trigger activator, for use in converting a semi-automatic firearm to shoot automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. A violation is punishable as a Class 6 felony. The bill also provides for the forfeiture of any auto sear concealed, possessed, transported, or carried in violation of the prohibition.
SESSION: 2024 Regular Session
VERSIONS: 5
VOTES: 10
LAST ACTION: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0163)
ACTIONS: 47
SPONSORS: Dan Helmer (D)* , Bonita Anthony (D) , Alex Askew (D) , Katrina Callsen (D) , Laura Jane Cohen (D) , Debra Gardner (D) , J.R. Henson (D) , Karen Keys-Gamarra (D) , Amy Laufer (D) , Marty Martinez (D) , Sam Rasoul (D) , Atoosa Reaser (D) , Holly Seibold (D) , Irene Shin (D) , Marcus Simon (D) , Kannan Srinivasan (D) , Kathy Tran (D) , Mike Jones (D)* , Elizabeth Bennett-Parker (D) , Nadarius Clark (D) , Rae Cousins (D) , Michael Feggans (D) , Michelle Maldonado (D) , Adele McClure (D)
KEYWORDS: Additional Physical Manipulation, Auto Sear Concealed, Auto Sear, Auto Sears, Continues Firing, Manual Reloading, Net Increase, Recoil Energy, Single Function, Single Pull
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