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PRINTER'S NO.   1213
                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                          HOUSE BILL
                          No. 1099
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025
     INTRODUCED BY CEPHAS, KENYATTA, GIRAL, KINKEAD, VENKAT, WAXMAN,
        BURGOS, HOHENSTEIN, FIEDLER, SANCHEZ, KHAN, HANBIDGE, GUENST,
        WARREN, HILL-EVANS, SCHLOSSBERG, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, MALAGARI,
        DONAHUE, FREEMAN, WEBSTER, O'MARA, CERRATO, GREEN, BOROWSKI,
        BRENNAN, ISAACSON AND FRANKEL, APRIL 1, 2025
     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, APRIL 1, 2025
                                      AN ACT
 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
    Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
    articles, providing for the offense of undetectable firearms.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
    Section 1.     Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
 § 6143.    Undetectable firearms.
    (a)    Offense defined.--It shall be unlawful for a person to
 manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer or
 receive a firearm constructed entirely of a nonmetal substance,
 or a firearm that does not include at least one major component
 of a firearm constructed entirely of a metal substance,
 including a barrel, slide, cylinder, frame or receiver, which
 meets any of the following:
           (1)   After removal of all parts other than major
    components, the firearm is not detectable as the security
    exemplar by walk-through metal detectors that are calibrated
    and operated to detect the security exemplar.
          (2)   The firearm includes a major component of which,
    when subject to inspection by the types of detection devices
    commonly used at airports for security screening, does not
    generate an image that accurately depicts the shape of the
    component.
    (b)   Grading.--An offense under this section constitutes a
 felony of the third degree.
    (c)   Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
 subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
    "Major component."    With respect to a firearm, the term shall
 include any of the following:
          (1)   The barrel.
          (2)   The slide or cylinder.
          (3)   The frame or receiver.
    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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