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AZ HCR2007

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Introduced

5/5/2016

Primary Sponsor

Randall Friese

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-second Legislature - Second Regular Session (2016)

AI Summary

  • Requires background checks through licensed firearms dealers for all firearm sales and transfers between private parties, with exceptions for family gifts, loans for hunting/sporting purposes, and other specific circumstances.

  • Allows licensed dealers to charge up to $20 to cover administrative costs for facilitating private firearm transfers and conducting required background checks.

  • Exempts law enforcement, military, federal officials, gunsmiths performing repairs, carriers/warehousemen, shooting range loans, inheritance by non-prohibited possessors, and antique firearms from the background check requirement.

  • Permits immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, first cousins, aunts, and uncles) to transfer firearms as bona fide gifts without background checks.

  • Makes violation of the firearms sales and transfer requirements a class 5 felony; this measure requires voter approval at the next general election per Arizona Constitution.

Legislative Description

Firearm sales; transfers; background checks

Last Action

Introduced in House and read first time

5/5/2016

Full Bill Text

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