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Firearm locking device required for sale or transfer of firearm; warning against accessibility to children; penalty. Makes it a Class 3 misdemeanor for any licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer to sell, deliver, or transfer any firearm to any person other than a licensed manufacturer, licensed importer, or licensed dealer unless the transferee is provided with a locking device for that firearm and the firearm is accompanied by a warning, in conspicuous and legible type in capital letters printed on a separate sheet of paper included within the packaging enclosing the firearm, that firearms should be locked and kept away from children and that there may be civil and criminal liability for failing to do so. The bill provides exceptions for law-enforcement and governmental agencies. This bill incorporates HB 12.
Introduced
Jan 2, 2024
Last Action
Nov 19, 2024
Session
VA 2025
Sponsors
1 primary · 27 co
Left in Courts of Justice
Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (15-Y 0-N)
Impact statement from DPB (HB158H1)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N)
VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N)
Committee substitute agreed to 24106293D-H1
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB158H1
Read second time
Read first time
Committee substitute printed 24106293D-H1
Reported from Public Safety with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
Incorporates HB12 (Jones)
Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 4-N)
House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
Impact statement from DPB (HB158)
Assigned PS sub: Firearms
Referred to Committee on Public Safety (Voice Vote)
Referred from Courts of Justice (Voice Vote)
Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101536D
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Left in Courts of Justice
Adele Y. McClure
Michael J. Jones
Alfonso H. Lopez
Bonita G. Anthony
Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker
Nadarius E. Clark
Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler
Rozia A. Henson, Jr.
Patrick A. Hope
Amy J. Laufer
Michelle Lopes Maldonado
Candi Mundon King
Atoosa R. Reaser
Holly M. Seibold
Marcus B. Simon
Shelly A. Simonds
Kathy K.L. Tran
Rodney T. Willett
Barbara A. Favola
David W. Marsden
Saddam Azlan Salim