SB 100 — Plastic firearms & unfinished frames, etc.; manufacture, import, etc. prohibited, penalties.

and regulations issued pursuant thereto and (ii) is imprinted with a valid serial number.

C.

It is unlawful to knowingly possess a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver that is not imprinted with a valid serial number.

D.

It is unlawful to manufacture or assemble, cause to be manufactured or assembled, import, purchase, sell, offer for sale, or transfer ownership of any firearm that is not imprinted with a valid serial number.

E.

Except as authorized by law, it is unlawful for a person who does not have a valid federal license to manufacture or assemble firearms to sell or transfer ownership of a firearm if (i) the person manufactured or assembled the firearm without a valid license to manufacture firearms, (ii) the person knowingly caused the firearm to be manufactured or assembled by another person who does not have a valid federal license to manufacture firearms, or (iii) the person is aware that the firearm was manufactured or assembled by another person who does not have a valid federal license to manufacture firearms.

F.

A federal firearms licensee may serialize a firearm or frame or receiver of a firearm, including a finished or unfinished frame or receiver, by imprinting a serial number on the firearm, frame, or receiver.

To serialize a firearm, frame, or receiver, the dealer or other licensee shall imprint on the firearm, frame, or receiver a serial number beginning with the dealer's or licensee's abbreviated federal firearms license number, which is the first three and last five digits of the license number, followed by a hyphen, before a unique identification number (12345678-(number)).

The serial number shall not be duplicated on any other firearm, frame, or receiver serialized by the licensee and shall be imprinted in a manner that complies with the requirements in federal law for imprinting a serial number on a firearm, including the minimum size and depth of the serial number and that the serial number is not susceptible to being readily obliterated, altered, or removed.

The federal firearms licensee shall retain a record concerning a firearm, frame, or receiver serialized by the licensee that complies with the requirements under federal law for the sale of a firearm.

In addition to any record required by federal law, a federal firearms licensee that imprints a unique serial number on a firearm, frame, or receiver pursuant to this subsection shall make a record at the time of the transaction of each transaction involving serializing a firearm, frame, or receiver and keep that record.

The record shall include the following information:

the date, name, age, and residence of any person to whom the item is transferred and the unique serial number imprinted on the firearm, frame, or receiver.

G.

A violation of this section is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.

A second or subsequent violation of this section is punishable as a Class 4 felony.

H.

The provisions of subsection B or C shall not apply to any person possessing or receiving the firearm who is a local, state, or federal law-enforcement officer or a federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer in the scope and course of his official duties or employment.

I.

This section does not apply to any of the following:

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2.§ 18.2-53.1.

TheUse sale, offer for sale, or transferdisplay of ownership of a firearm orin anycommitting completedfelony. or unfinished frame or receiver to a law-enforcement agency;

3.It shall be is unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any pistol, shotgun, rifle, or other manner while committing or attempting to commit murder, rape, forcible sodomy, inanimate or animateening object sexual penetration as defined in § 18.2-67.2, robbery, carjacking, burglary, malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51, malicious bodily injury to a law-enforcement officer as defined in § 18.2-51.1, aggravated malicious wounding as defined in § 18.2-51.2, malicious wounding by mob as defined in and any person found guilty thereof shall be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonmentinct felony of three years for a first conviction, and to a mandatory minimum term of five 10 years for a second or subsequent conviction under the provisions of this section.

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4.Manufacture, import, sale, transfer or possession of plastic firearm prohibited.

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5.As used in this section, "plastic firearm" means any firearm, including machine guns and sawed-off shotguns as defined in this chapter, containing less than 3.7 ounces of electromagnetically inspection by X-ray machines commonly used at airports, does not generate an image that accuratelyto depicts its shape.

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6.S 2.

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7.T I / T / U T E B S 2

A common carrier, motor carrier, air carrier, or carrier affiliated with an air carrier through common controlling interest that is subject to Title 49 of the United States Code, or an authorized agent of any such carrier, when acting in the course and scope of duties incident to the receipt, processing, transportation, or delivery of property;

8.

An authorized representative of a local, state, or federal government that receives a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver as part of an authorized, voluntary buyback program in of 3 which the governmental entity is buying or receiving such weapons from private individuals;

person who meets all of the following:f a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiEer by a a.

The person is not prohibited by Virginia or federal law from possessing the weapon;

N b.

The person possessed the firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver no longRr than was necessary to deliver it to a law-enforcement agency for that agency's disposition according to law;

and O person is transporting it to a law-enforcement agency in order to deliver it to the agency for thethe agency's disposition according to law;

10.

The possession or importation of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver by a nonresident of the Commonwealth who:

E a.

Is traveling with the firearm or completed or unfinished frame or receiver in the CommonwDalth in accordance with the provisions of 18 U.S.C.

§ 926A;

or Commonwealth exclusively for use in an organized sport shooting event or competition and no longer than reasonably necessary to participate in such an event or competition;

or 11.

The possession or importation of a firearm or any completed or unfinished frame or receiver by a new resident moving into the Commonwealth who, within 90 days of moving into the Commonwealth, causes the firearm or completed or unfinished frame or receiver to be imprinted with a valid serial section.removes the weapon from the Commonwealth, or otherwise comes into compliance with this B 2.

That the provisions of this act may result in a net increase in periods of imprisonment or 0 commitment.

Pursuant to § 30-19.1:4 of the Code of Virginia, the estimated amount of the E necessary appropriation cannot be determined for periods of imprisonment in state adult R correctional facilities;

therefore, Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2023, Special Session I, requires the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to assign a minimum fiscal impact of appropriation cannot be determined for periods of commitment to the custody of the Departmentry of Juvenile Justice.

3.

That the provisions of § 18.2-308.5:2 of the Code of Virginia, as created by this act, with the exception of subsection C, shall become effective on January 1, 2025.

4.

That the provisions of subsection C of § 18.2-308.5:2 of the Code of Virginia, as created by this act, shall become effective on July 1, 2025.