Pennsylvania HB1747 prohibits the sale or transfer of semiautomatic assault rifles to individuals under 21 years old.
Pennsylvania HB1747 amends Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to further define semiautomatic assault rifles and restrict their sale or transfer. The bill prohibits any person, corporation, or firm from selling or transferring a semiautomatic assault rifle to an individual under 21 years of age. It also outlines the definition of a semiautomatic assault rifle as a repeating rifle that uses a portion of the energy from a firing cartridge to extract the case and chamber the next round, requiring a separate trigger pull for each cartridge.
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