A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to increase the penalties for persons convicted of committing a felony with or while unlawfully carrying a firearm.

Summary

Amends the Gun Control Act of 1968 to require that whoever uses or carries a firearm during the commission of any felony which may be prosecuted in a Federal court shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such offense, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than two or more than 25 years (currently, not less than one or more than ten years). Requires in the case of a second or subsequent conviction the imposition of a term of imprisonment for life (currently, not less than two or more than 25 years). Applies the current prohibition against a suspended, probationary, or concurrent sentence in second or subsequent convictions to a first offense.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 18 September 1979

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