Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that amends various firearm regulations and outlaws ghost guns.

Highlights:

• Prohibits an individual from knowingly transporting, shipping, transferring, or selling an unfinished firearm (ghost gun) frame or receiver unless all of the following apply, including (Sec. 2):

• The individual is a federally licensed gun dealer or manufacturer;

• The name of the manufacturer and an individual serial number is conspicuously placed on the unfinished firearm frame or receiver; and

• The individual maintains records for the unfinished firearm frame or receiver.

• Prohibits an individual from manufacturing or distributing a firearm made using a 3D printer (ghost gun), distributing instructions that would allow a 3D printer to manufacture a firearm, firearm, receiver, or major component of a firearm (Sec. 2).

• Prohibits an individual from knowingly possessing an unfinished firearm frame or receiver that does not have the name of the manufacturer and individual serial number conspicuously on it or on a major component of the firearm into which the unfinished firearm frame (Sec. 2).

• Specifies that the aforementioned provision does not apply to a federally licensed gun manufacturer during the manufacturing process of the firearm or receiver (Sec. 2).

• Establishes that possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number is a Class E felony (Sec. 2).

• Establishes that manufacturing, distributing, or providing instructions for the manufacturing of a firearm using a 3-D printer is a Class D felony (Sec. 2).

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