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PA HB1443
Bill
Status
5/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Melissa Shusterman
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AI Summary
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Adds "3-D printed firearm" to the definition of "firearm" across multiple sections of Pennsylvania's Crimes and Offenses code, including provisions on prohibited offensive weapons, assault, theft, paramilitary training, and firearms licensing.
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Requires a federal firearms manufacturing license under 18 U.S.C. § 923(a) to use a 3-D printer to create any firearm or firearm part.
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Mandates that licensed manufacturers include a serial number on all 3-D printed firearms and firearm parts.
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Establishes criminal penalties: third-degree felony for manufacturing a 3-D printed firearm without a license, and second-degree felony for manufacturing without including a serial number.
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Takes effect 60 days after enactment.
Legislative Description
In general provisions, further providing for definitions; in inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons; in assault, further providing for discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure; in theft and related offenses, further providing for definitions; in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses, further providing for prohibiting of paramilitary training; in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for definitions, for persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms, for firearms not to be carried without a license and for prohibited conduct during emergency, providing for 3-D printed firearms and further providing for sale or transfer of firearms, for firearm sales surcharge, for registration of firearms and for licensing of dealers.
Last Action
Referred to Judiciary
5/13/2025