116th CONGRESS 1st Session |
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits to be considered to be firearms.
February 14, 2019
Mr. Espaillat (for himself, Mr. Schneider, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Swalwell of California, Mr. Cárdenas, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Norton, Mrs. Watson Coleman, and Ms. Velázquez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require firearm assembly kits to be considered to be firearms.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the “Ghost Guns Are Guns Act”.
SEC. 2. Firearm assembly kits considered to be firearms.
Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking “or (D) any destructive device” and inserting “; (D) any destructive device; or (E) any combination of parts designed or intended for use in converting any device into a firearm and from which a firearm may be readily assembled”; and
(A) by adding “and” at the end of subparagraph (A);
(B) by striking “and” at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting a period; and
(C) by striking subparagraph (C).