Bill Text: MO HB537 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the sheriff or chief of police to execute, within 15 business days, all documents required under federal law by an applicant for the purchase or transfer of a firearm with certain exceptions
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-10 - Referred: General Laws (H) [HB537 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2011-HB537-Introduced.html
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LEARA (Sponsor) AND RICHARDSON (Co-sponsor).
1543L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 571, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to firearms.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 571, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 571.083, to read as follows:
571.083. 1. The sheriff or chief of police of the city or county of residence of a person purchasing or receiving any firearm, as defined by the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. section 5845 et seq., shall execute within fifteen business days of any request all documents soliciting information from such official that are required under federal law to be submitted in connection with the person's purchase or receipt of the firearm.
2. For purposes of this section "execute" means to provide all required information and to approve the purchase or transfer unless the sheriff has information that receipt or possession of the firearm would place the purchaser or transferee in violation of state or local law or that the purchaser or transferee will use the firearm for other than lawful purposes.
3. A purchaser or transferee who is not prohibited from possessing firearms under section 571.030 or 18 U.S.C. Section 922 is presumed, for purposes of the execution of the documents referred to in subsection 1 of this section, to be receiving such firearms for lawful purposes.
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