SB 208 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles, further providing for sale or transfer of firearms.

PRINTER'S NO.   155

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         SENATE BILL
                         No. 208
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, COLLETT, STREET, KEARNEY, HAYWOOD,
        COMITTA, FONTANA, COSTA, TARTAGLIONE, KANE, KIM AND
        SANTARSIERO, JANUARY 29, 2025

     REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 29, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous
 3      articles, further providing for sale or transfer of firearms.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Section 6111(a)(1), (b)(1.1)(v) and (f)(2) of
 7   Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended
 8   to read:
 9   § 6111.    Sale or transfer of firearms.
10      (a)     Time and manner of delivery.--
11             (1)   [Except as provided in paragraph (2), no seller
12      shall deliver a firearm to the purchaser or transferee
13      thereof until 48 hours shall have elapsed from the time of
14      the application for the purchase thereof, and, when
15      delivered, the firearm shall be securely wrapped and shall be
16      unloaded.] A seller, licensed importer, licensed dealer,
17      licensed manufacturer or county sheriff facilitating a
18      transfer of a firearm between two persons, who are not
 1      licensed importers, licensed dealers or licensed
 2      manufacturers, may not deliver the firearm to the purchaser
 3      or transferee until a period of 72 hours has elapsed from the
 4      time of the purchase. This paragraph shall not apply to a
 5      transfer between spouses, a parent and child or a grandparent
 6      and grandchild who is otherwise eligible to possess, use,
 7      manufacture, control, sell or transfer a firearm under
 8      section 6105 (relating to persons not to possess, use,
 9      manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms).
10            * * *
11      (b)   Duty of seller.--No licensed importer, licensed
12   manufacturer or licensed dealer shall sell or deliver any
13   firearm to another person, other than a licensed importer,
14   licensed manufacturer, licensed dealer or licensed collector,
15   until the conditions of subsection (a) have been satisfied and
16   until he has:
17            * * *
18            (1.1)   On the date of publication in the Pennsylvania
19      Bulletin of a notice by the Pennsylvania State Police that
20      the instantaneous records check has been implemented, all of
21      the following shall apply:
22                * * *
23                (v)   Unless it has been discovered pursuant to a
24            criminal history, juvenile delinquency and mental health
25            records background check that the potential purchaser or
26            transferee is prohibited from possessing a firearm
27            pursuant to section 6105 [(relating to persons not to
28            possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer
29            firearms)], no information on the application/record of
30            sale provided pursuant to this subsection shall be

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 1          retained as precluded by section 6111.4 (relating to
 2          registration of firearms) by the Pennsylvania State
 3          Police either through retention of the application/record
 4          of sale or by entering the information onto a computer,
 5          and, further, an application/record of sale received by
 6          the Pennsylvania State Police pursuant to this subsection
 7          shall be destroyed within 72 hours of the completion of
 8          the criminal history, juvenile delinquency and mental
 9          health records background check.
10          * * *
11    (f)   Application of section.--
12          * * *
13          [(2)    The provisions contained in subsections (a) and (c)
14    shall only apply to pistols or revolvers with a barrel length
15    of less than 15 inches, any shotgun with a barrel length of
16    less than 18 inches, any rifle with a barrel length of less
17    than 16 inches or any firearm with an overall length of less
18    than 26 inches.]
19          * * *
20    Section 2.     This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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