US Congress House Bill 1474 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: Introduced on April 10 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-04-30 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, And Investigations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act - Amends the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 to: (1) delay the repeal date for 10 years; and (2) extend coverage of, and exemptions under, the Act to undetectable firearm receivers and ammunition magazines. Prohibits the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of any receiver for a rifle or handgun, or of any ammunition magazine, that: (1) is manufactured by a person who is not a licensed manufacturer; (2) is not as detectable as the Receiver Security Exemplar or the Magazine Security Exemplar by walk-through metal detectors; or (3) does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of a receiver or a magazine when subjected to inspection by airport x-ray machines. Allows barium sulfate or other compounds to be used in the fabrication of a firearm receiver. Defines a "Receiver Security Exemplar" and a "Magazine Security Exemplar" as objects fabricated at the direction of the Attorney General that are: (1) constructed, respectively, of 3.7 ounces of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling the lower receiver for a rifle or handgun or of 1 ounce of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling an ammunition magazine; and (2) suitable for testing and calibrating metal detectors. Directs the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to permit receivers or magazines that were previously prohibited but that become as detectable as the respective Exemplar in view of advances in weapons detection technology.

Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act

Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Peter King [R-NY]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-30	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.
2013-04-10	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

SB1149 (Related) 2013-06-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1474/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr1474/BILLS-113hr1474ih.pdf