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HR 2702 105th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Assault weapons Firearms Firearms control Foreign Trade and International Finance Import restrictions

To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.

Introduced: October 22, 1997 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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Oct 27, 1997
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
Oct 22, 1997
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Oct 22, 1997
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit the importation of cosmetically altered semiautomatic assault weapons.

What's happening now October 27, 1997

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2702: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2702/
MLA
"H.R. 2702: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2702/.
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H.R. 2702, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2702/.
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[H.R. 2702: To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to ban the importation of firearms that have been cosmetically altered to avoid the ban on semiautomatic assault weapons.](https://openamerica.io/bill/105-HR-2702/)
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