Bill Text: TX HB2807 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to creating an offense for the unlawful possession or transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-05 - Left pending in committee [HB2807 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2807-Introduced.html
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| By: Burnam | H.B. No. 2807 | |
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| relating to creating an offense for the unlawful possession or | ||
| transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 46, Penal Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Section 46.055 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 46.055. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OR TRANSFER OF | ||
| SEMIAUTOMATIC ASSAULT WEAPON. (a) In this section, "semiautomatic | ||
| assault weapon" means a firearm that: | ||
| (1) requires a separate pull of the trigger to fire | ||
| each cartridge or shell but is able to use a portion of the energy of | ||
| a firing cartridge or shell to extract the fired cartridge case or | ||
| spent shell and to chamber the next round; | ||
| (2) is able to accept a detachable magazine; and | ||
| (3) is either: | ||
| (A) a rifle with at least two of the following | ||
| characteristics or a rifle that is a semiautomatic version of an | ||
| automatic firearm with at least one of the following | ||
| characteristics: | ||
| (i) a folding or telescoping stock; | ||
| (ii) a pistol grip that protrudes | ||
| conspicuously beneath the action of the firearm; | ||
| (iii) a bayonet mount; | ||
| (iv) a flash suppressor or threaded barrel | ||
| designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; or | ||
| (v) a grenade launcher; or | ||
| (B) a pistol with at least two of the following | ||
| characteristics or a pistol that is a semiautomatic version of an | ||
| automatic firearm with at least one of the following | ||
| characteristics: | ||
| (i) an ammunition magazine that attaches to | ||
| the pistol outside of the pistol grip; | ||
| (ii) a threaded barrel that is able to | ||
| accept a barrel extender, flash suppressor, forward handgrip, or | ||
| silencer; | ||
| (iii) a shroud that is attached to or | ||
| partially or completely encircles the barrel and that permits the | ||
| shooter to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being | ||
| burned; or | ||
| (iv) a manufactured weight of 50 ounces or | ||
| more when the firearm is unloaded. | ||
| (b) A person younger than 21 years of age commits an offense | ||
| if the person possesses a semiautomatic assault weapon. | ||
| (c) A person commits an offense if the person sells, rents, | ||
| leases, loans, or gives a semiautomatic assault weapon to any | ||
| person knowing that the person to whom the weapon is to be delivered | ||
| is younger than 21 years of age. | ||
| (d) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. | ||
| (e) If conduct that constitutes an offense under this | ||
| section also constitutes an offense under any other law, the actor | ||
| may be prosecuted under this section, the other law, or both. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
