Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 513 - Firearms dealers; comply with provisions of Brady Act

Page Numbers - 1/ 2

Code Sections - 16-11-170

1. Watts  26th            2. Jenkins  110th          3. Lane  146th
4. Watson  139th          5. Carter  166th           6. Royal  164th


House Comm: PubS       /                Senate Comm: Judy       /                                   
House Vote: Yeas 134   Nays 38          Senate Vote: Yeas     Nays                                  
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               House          Action         Senate                                                 
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              1/31/95  Read 1st Time         2/15/95                                                
              2/1/95   Read 2nd Time                                                                
              2/2/95*  Favorably Reported                                                           
              2/2/95   Recommitted                                                                  
              2/13/95  Read 3rd Time                                                                
              2/13/95  Passed/Adopted                                                               
              2/13/95  Notice to Reconsider                                                         
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Favorably Reported 2/8/95                                                                           
                                                                                                    
Code Sections amended: 16-11-170, 16-11-171, 16-11-173, 16-11-174, 16-11-175,                       
16-11-176, 16-11-177, 16-11-178, 16-11-179, 16-11-180, 16-11-181, 16-11-182,                        
16-11-183 ,16-11-184, 35-3-34, 35-3-37, 15-9-60                                                     


HB 513                                            LC 9 8223S






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to dangerous
  1- 3  instrumentalities and practices, so as to declare that the
  1- 4  regulation of firearms is properly an issue of general,
  1- 5  state-wide concern; to prohibit the regulation of firearms,
  1- 6  firearms dealers, dealers in firearms components, and gun
  1- 7  shows by counties or municipal corporations; to provide for
  1- 8  exceptions; to prohibit the enactment or adoption of certain
  1- 9  ordinances or regulations; to provide that certain county
  1-10  and municipal ordinances and regulations shall be void and
  1-11  no longer of force and effect after a certain date; to
  1-12  provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to
  1-13  provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and
  1-14  for other purposes.

  1-15       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-16  Article 4 of Chapter 11 of Title 16 of the Official Code of
  1-17  Georgia Annotated, relating to dangerous instrumentalities
  1-18  and practices, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new
  1-19  Part 5 to read as follows:

                          "Part 5

  1-20    16-11-170. (Index)

  1-21    (a) It is declared by the General Assembly that the
  1-22    regulation of firearms is properly an issue of general,
  1-23    state-wide concern.

  1-24    (b) Except as provided in this Code section, no county or
  1-25    municipal corporation, by zoning or by ordinance,
  1-26    resolution, or other enactment, shall regulate in any
  1-27    manner gun shows, the possession, ownership, transport,
  1-28    carrying, transfer, sale, purchase, licensing, or
  1-29    registration of firearms, components of firearms, firearms
  1-30    dealers, or dealers in firearms components.




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                                                  LC 9 8223S

  2- 1    (c) A county or municipal corporation may regulate the
  2- 2    transport, carrying, or possession of firearms by
  2- 3    employees of the local unit of government in the course of
  2- 4    their employment with that local unit of government.

  2- 5    (d) Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit
  2- 6    municipalities or counties, by ordinance, resolution, or
  2- 7    other enactment, from requiring the ownership of guns by
  2- 8    heads of households within the political subdivision.

  2- 9    (e) Nothing contained in this Code section shall prohibit
  2-10    municipalities or counties, by ordinance, resolution, or
  2-11    other enactment, from reasonably limiting or prohibiting
  2-12    the discharge of firearms within the boundaries of the
  2-13    municipal corporation.

  2-14    (f) No county or municipal ordinance or regulation which
  2-15    was in effect on July 1, 1995, except those ordinances or
  2-16    regulations which may be adopted pursuant to subsection
  2-17    (c), (d), or (e) of this Code section, shall be of further
  2-18    force and effect on or after July 1, 1995.  No ordinance
  2-19    or regulation attempting to regulate firearms in any
  2-20    manner, except as authorized by subsection (c), (d), or
  2-21    (e) of this Code section, shall be enacted or adopted by
  2-22    any county or municipal corporation on or after July 1,
  2-23    1995."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-24  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1995.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-25  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-26  repealed.

















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