SB 43

                                                      PRINTER'S NO.   16
                  THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                     SENATE BILL
                     No. 43
                                             Session of
                                               2025
 INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, COMITTA, KEARNEY, FONTANA, SCHWANK,
    STREET, COSTA, HAYWOOD, KANE, TARTAGLIONE AND KIM,
    JANUARY 22, 2025
 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 22, 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 definitions.
4    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6    Section 1.     Section 6102 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
8 § 6102.    Definitions.
9    Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
10 provisions of this subchapter which are applicable to specific
11 provisions of this subchapter, the following words and phrases,
12 when used in this subchapter shall have, unless the context
13 clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this
14 section:
15    * * *
16    "Frame or receiver."     Any of the following:
17(1)   A part of a firearm which provides housing for
18    components, including the hammer, bolt or breechblock, firing
1   pin, ejector or extractor.
2(2)   A partially manufactured blank, casting or machined
3   body intended, designed or advertised for the purpose of
4   being turned into a fully operable part of a firearm which
5   provides housing for components, including the hammer, bolt
6   or breechblock, firing pin, ejector or extractor.
7   * * *
8   Section 2.    This act shall take effect immediately.
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