[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5863 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5863

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to require that 
 firearms purchased with Byrne JAG funds be SMART guns, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2016

 Mr. McNerney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to require that 
 firearms purchased with Byrne JAG funds be SMART guns, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``SMART Guns Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. SMART GUN PURCHASES WITH BYRNE JAG FUNDS.

    Section 501(a) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
(42 U.S.C. 3751(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Limitation on purchases of firearms.--
                    ``(A) General limitation.--To the extent 
                practicable, any firearm purchased with amounts 
                received under this part shall be a SMART gun.
                    ``(B) Definition.--For purposes of this section, 
                the term `SMART gun' means a firearm that includes a 
                safety feature that allows the firearm to fire only 
                when activated by an authorized user.''.
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