A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, so as to authorize a more severe penalty to be imposed in connection with certain crimes involving the use of, or unlawful carrying of, firearms.

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Provides that whoever carries a firearm unlawfully 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 to a term of imprisonment for not less than five years nor more than ten years. States that in the case of a second of subsequent conviction under this Act such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than twenty-five years and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not suspend the sentence in the case of a second or subsequent conviction of such person or give him a probationary sentence, nor shall the term of imprisonment imposed under this subsection run concurrently with any term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of such felony.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 8 March 1973

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