DATE CREATED: January 9, 2024
LAST ACTION DATE: 03/26/2024
LAST AMENDMENT DATE: 03/26/2024
PROGRESS: Signed/Enacted/Adopted
BILL ID: SB210
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: 7
LAST ACTION: Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0164)
ACTIONS: 38
SPONSORS: Russet Perry (D)* , Jennifer Carroll Foy (D)* , Suhas Subramanyam (D)
KEYWORDS: Additional Physical Manipulation, Auto Sear Concealed, Auto Sear, Auto Sears, Continues Firing, Manual Reloading, Net Increase, Recoil Energy, Single Function, Single Pull