AB 354 — Revises provisions relating to firearms. (BDR 15-251)

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354–A SSEMBLYWOMAN JAUREGUI M ARCH 20, 2023 ____________ Referred to Committee on Judiciary SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to firearms.

(BDR 15-251) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

Increases or Newly Provides for Term of Imprisonment in County or City Jail or Detention Facility.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

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Existing law prohibits a person from carrying or possessing certain weapons on the property of the Nevada System of Higher Education, a private or public school or a child care facility, or while in a vehicle of a private or public school or child care facility.

(NRS 202.265) Section 1 of this bill additionally prohibits a person from possessing or causing a firearm to be present in, or within 100 feet of an entrance to, a place the person knows or reasonably should know is an election site, unless the person:

(3) possesses the firearm while in a vehicle, so long as the person does not brandish the firearm place of residence, in a business or removeon theprivate firearmproperty fromthat theis vehicle;located within 100 feet of an entrance to an election site.

or (4) lawfully possesses a firearm in a - *AB354_R1* – 2 – place of residence, in a business or on private property that is located within 100 feet of an entrance to an election site.

Existing law prohibits a person from selling, offering to sell or transferring an manufacturer, and the recipient of the unfinished frame or receiver unless:is a firearms importer or manufacturer;

(1) the person is a firearms importer orring an manufacturer, and the recipient of the unfinished frame or receiver is a firearms importer or manufacturer;

(NRS 202.253) Section 2 of this bill revises the definition of the term “firearms importer - 82nd Session (2023) – 2 – or manufacturer” to include a firearms dealer and sections 3-7 of this bill make conforming changes to reflect the changed definition.

Section 4 of this bill additionally prohibits a person from selling, offering to sell or transferring an unfinished frame or receiver, ready frame or receiver or receiver, ready frame or receiver or market frame or receiver unless:is a firearms dealer, importer or manufacturer;

(1) the recipient of the unfinished frame or or receiver, ready frame or receiver or market frame or receiver is a firearms dealer, importer or manufacturer;

Section 5 of this bill prohibits a person from possessing, purchasing, transporting or receiving an unfinished frame or receiver, a ready frame or receiver receiver, ready frame or receiver or market frame or receiver isunless: a firearms dealer, importer or manufacturer;

(1) the recipient of the unfinished frame orer receiver, ready frame or receiver or market frame or receiver is a firearms dealer, importer or manufacturer;

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Section 1.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person shall not possess or cause a firearm to be present in, or within 100 - *AB354_R1* – 3 – feet of the entrance of, a place the person knows or reasonably should know is an election site.

- 82nd Session (2023) – 3 – (d) The otherwise lawful possession of a firearm in a residence, in a business or on private property that is located within 100 feet of an entrance to an election site.

A person shall not knowingly possess a firearm or cause a firearm to be present at an election site with the specific intent to disrupt, interfere with or monitor the administration of thetheintent to election, the counting of votes or any person who is voting or attempting to vote.

“Firearm” means any device designed to be used as a weapon from which a projectile may be expelled through the barrel by the force of any explosion or other form of combustion.

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[8.]- 9.82nd Session (2023) – 4 – printing, extrusion, machined body or similar article that hasg, reached a stage in manufacturing where it may readily be completed, assembled or converted to be used as the frame or receiver of a functional firearm.

“Ready frame or receiver” means any forging, casting, printing, extrusion, machined body or similar article that has reached a stage in manufacturing where it may readily be completed, assembled or converted to be used as the frame or receiver of a functional firearm.

“Unfinished frame or receiver” means a blank, a casting or a machined body that is intended to be turned into the frame or lower receiver of a firearm with additional machining and which has been formed or machined to the point at which most of the major machining operations have been completed to turn the blank, casting or machined body into a frame or lower receiver of a firearm even if the fire-control cavity area of the blank, casting or machined body is still completely solid and unmachined.unmachined.nk, casting or Sec.

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(1) A shotgun having one or more barrels less than 18 inches in length;

orshotgun having one or -more *AB354_R1*barrels –less 5than –18 inches (2) Any weapon made from a shotgun, whether by alteration, modification or other means, with an overall length of less than 26 inches.

- 82nd Session (2023) – 5 – (b) The possession of any short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun by a person who is licensed as a firearms dealer, importer, manufacturer, collector or dealer by the United States Department of the Treasury, or by a person to whom such a rifle or shotgun is registeredreg(c) withThe thepossession Unitedof Statesany Departmentshort-barreled ofrifle theor Treasury;short-barreled shotgun that has been determined to be a collector’s item pursuant to U.S.C.

or (c) The possession of any short-barreled rifle or short-barreled shotgun that has been determined to be a collector’s item pursuant to 26 U.S.C.