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ND HB1451

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/14/2019

Primary Sponsor

Pamela Anderson

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Origin

House of Representatives

66th Legislative Assembly

AI Summary

  • Imposes a mandatory three-day waiting period between firearm purchase and delivery from licensed dealers, with exceptions for concealed carry permit holders, firearm trades, apprentice hunters, and law enforcement officers.

  • Requires firearm dealer sales records to be available for inspection by law enforcement during normal business hours.

  • Establishes a class C felony penalty for violating the waiting period requirement.

  • Bans the import, transfer, distribution, sale, possession, or giving of bump stocks, defined as devices that increase a firearm's rate of fire to mimic automatic weapons, with class C felony penalties and mandatory seizure and destruction upon conviction.

  • Directs the legislative management to study raising the minimum age to purchase or possess a firearm from eighteen to twenty-one during the 2019-20 interim, with findings and recommendations due to the sixty-seventh legislative assembly.

Legislative Description

A waiting period for the purchase of a firearm, a ban on bump stocks, and licensure requirements; to provide for a legislative management study; and to provide a penalty.

Last Action

Second reading, failed to pass, yeas 11 nays 82

1/29/2019

Committee Referrals

Energy and Natural Resources1/14/2019

Full Bill Text

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