A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to increase the penalties imposed for certain firearms violations and to extend the mandatory imposition of those penalties to first offenses.

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

26 April 1977

Last action

—

Status

Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summary

Amends the provisions of the Gun Control Act of 1968 which impose additional penalties for using or unlawfully carrying a firearm during the commission of a Federal felony to: (1) replace ranges of authorized sentences with sentences for a specified number of years; and (2) prohibit a probationary or suspended sentence for first, as well as for subsequent, convictions.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

Introduced in House
summary · EN · 26 April 1977
Open at official source

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.

Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/6648
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/95/hr/6648