HR 2567 113th Congress House Commerce Administrative law and regulatory procedures Child safety and welfare Consumer Product Safety Commission Firearms and explosives Product safety and quality

Child Handgun Safety Act

Introduced: June 27, 2013 See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Jul 15, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

Jun 28, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.

Jun 27, 2013

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Jun 27, 2013

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Child Handgun Safety Act - Directs the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to promulgate a consumer product safety standard for handguns that requires that: (1) any handgun manufactured in the United States must be child-resistant and include a mechanism that effectively precludes an average five-year old child from operating it when it is ready to fire (effective one year after this Act's enactment date); and (2) any handgun sold, offered for sale, traded, transferred, shipped, leased, or distributed in the United States must be child-resistant as manufactured or retrofitted to be child-resistant (effective two years after such date).

Includes as such a mechanism: (1) raising trigger resistance to at least a 10-pound pull, (2) altering the firing mechanism so that an average 5-year old child's hands are too small to operate the handgun, or (3) requiring a series of multiple motions in order to fire the handgun.

Exempts antique firearms and firearms owned by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Requires the cost of retrofitting a firearm to meet such requirement to be borne by the manufacturer if the manufacturer is operational at the time the retrofit is required, but permits the use of the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund for payments to reimburse handgun manufacturers for the costs of retrofitting required by this Act.

What's happening now July 15, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations.

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