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 102 STAT. 3816

PUBLIC LAW 100-649—NOV. 10, 1988

Public Law 100-649 100th Congress An Act Mov. 10, l^oo [H.R. 4445]

rp^ amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain firearms especially useful to terrorists.

Undetectable

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Firearms Act of 1988.

SECTION 1. SHOFiT TITLE.

industry Imports.'

This Act may be cited as the "Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988".

Commerce and trade.

SEC. 2. UNDETECTABLE FIREARMS.

l^USC 921 note

Regulations.

^^^ PROHIBITIONS.—Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: "(p)(l) It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer, or receive any firearm— "(A) that, after removal of grips, stocks, and magazines, is not as detectable as the Security Exemplar, by walk-through metal detectors calibrated and operated to detect the Security Exemplar; or "(B) any major component of which, when subjected to inspection by the types of x-ray machines commonly used at airports, does not generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the component. Barium sulfate or other compounds may be used in the fabrication of the component. "(2) For purposes of this subsection— "(A) the term 'firearm' does not include the frame or receiver of any such weapon; "(B) the term 'major component' means, with respect to a firearm, the barrel, the slide or cylinder, or the frame or receiver of the firearm; and "(C) the term 'Security Exemplar' means an object, to be fabricated at the direction of the Secretary, that is— "(i) constructed of, during the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this subsection, 3.7 ounces of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel in a shape resembling a handgun; and "(ii) suitable for testing and calibrating metal detectors: Provided, however. That at the close of such 12-month period, and at appropriate times thereafter the Secretary shall promulgate regulations to permit the manufacture, importation, sale, shipment, delivery, possession, transfer, or receipt of firearms previously prohibited under this subparagraph that are as detectable as a 'Security Exemplar' which contains 3.7 ounces of material type 17-4 PH stainless steel, in a shape resembling a handgun, or such lesser amount as is detectable in view of advances in state-of-the-art developments in weapons detection technology. "(3) Under such rules and regulations as the Secretary shall prescribe, this subsection shall not apply to the manufacture, posses-

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