A bill to amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to strengthen the penalty provision applicable to a Federal felony committed with a firearm.

Summary

Provides that whoever uses a firearm to commit any felony which may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, or carries a firearm unlawfully during the commission of any felony which may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than five years nor more than twenty-five years. States 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. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 924(c))

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 3 January 1973

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