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HR 1922 107th Congress House Crime and Law Enforcement Ammunition Assault weapons Firearms control Foreign Trade and International Finance Import restrictions

To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and to extend the ban on transferring such devices to those that were manufactured before the ban became law.

Introduced: May 21, 2001 Introduced by: DeGette, Diana Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed Senate
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Became law
May 30, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.
May 21, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
May 21, 2001
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to: (1) make it unlawful for any person to import a large capacity ammunition feeding device; (2) eliminate the exemption for the transfer of such devices lawfully possessed before enactment of the ban; and (3) expand the definition of such devices to include those manufactured on or before the date of enactment of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
What's happening now May 30, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Democratic 6
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Pelosi, Nancy
California · Jun 7, 2001
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Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · May 21, 2001
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · May 21, 2001
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Nadler, Jerrold
New York · May 21, 2001
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · May 21, 2001
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · May 21, 2001
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1922: To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and to extend the ban on transferring such devices to those that were manufactured before the ban became law.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-1922/
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"H.R. 1922: To ban the importation of large capacity ammunition feeding devices, and to extend the ban on transferring such devices to those that were manufactured before the ban became law.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-1922/.
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H.R. 1922, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-1922/.
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