A bill to provide additional penalties for the use of firearms in the commission of certain crimes of violence.

Summary

Provides that whoever, while engaged in the commission of any offense which is a Federal crime of violence, is armed with any firearm, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years. States that a person convicted for a second or subsequent time of committing such a crime of violence while armed with a firearm shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than twenty-five years. Provides that in the case of any sentence imposed under this Act the court shall not suspend such sentence or give a probationary sentence nor shall the term of imprisonment imposed under this section run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of such crime of violence. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 2401, 2402)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 18 January 1973

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