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AZ HCR2007
Concurrent Resolution
Status
5/5/2016
Primary Sponsor
Randall Friese
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AI Summary
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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.
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Allows licensed dealers to charge up to $20 to cover administrative costs for facilitating private firearm transfers and conducting required background checks.
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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.
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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.
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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