A bill to increase the penalty with respect to certain offenses involving the commission of a felony while armed with a firearm.

Summary

Provides that whoever uses a firearm to commit any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, or carries a firearm during the commission of any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such felony, be sentenced for the additional offense to a term of imprisonment for not less than 20 years nor more than 40 years. States that if death results to any person in the commission of such felony, such individual convicted of the felony shall be sentenced to death. Provides that the execution or imposition of any term of imprisonment imposed under this Act may not be suspended, and probation may not be granted. Provides that any term of imprisonment imposed under this Act may not be imposed to run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of such felony.'

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 April 1973

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