| Chapter 099 |
| 2022 -- H 6614 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 06/20/2022 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- LARGE CAPACITY FEEDING DEVICE BAN OF 2022 |
Introduced By: Representatives Caldwell, Knight, Blazejewski, Kazarian, Craven, McNamara, Felix, Ajello, McEntee, and Williams |
| Date Introduced: January 06, 2022 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Title 11 of the General Laws entitled "CRIMINAL OFFENSES" is hereby |
| amended by adding thereto the following chapter: |
| CHAPTER 47.1 |
| LARGE CAPACITY FEEDING DEVICE BAN OF 2022 |
| 11-47.1-1. Short title. |
| This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Rhode Island Large Capacity Feeding |
| Device Ban Act of 2022." |
| 11-47.1-2. Definitions. |
| As used in this chapter: |
| (1) "Federally licensed firearm dealer" means a person who holds a valid federal firearm |
| dealers license issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 923(a). |
| (2) "Large capacity feeding device" means a magazine, box, drum, tube, belt, feed strip, or |
| other ammunition feeding device which is capable of holding, or can readily be extended to hold, |
| more than ten (10) rounds of ammunition to be fed continuously and directly therefrom into a semi- |
| automatic firearm. The term shall not include an attached tubular device which is capable of holding |
| only .22 caliber rimfire ammunition. |
| 11-47.1-3. Large capacity feeding devices prohibited. |
| (a) No person, except for a federally licensed firearms firearm dealer, shall manufacture, |
| sell, offer to sell, transfer, purchase, possess, or have under his or her control a large capacity |
| feeding device, except as otherwise authorized under this chapter. Any person convicted of |
| violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment of not more than five (5) |
| years, or by a fine of up to five thousand dollars ($5,000), and the large capacity feeding device |
| shall be subject to forfeiture. |
| (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to: |
| (1) Any person who, on the effective date of this chapter, lawfully possesses a large |
| capacity feeding device; provided that, within one hundred eighty (180) days of the effective date |
| of this chapter the person: |
| (i) Permanently modifies the large capacity feeding device such that it cannot hold more |
| than ten (10) rounds of ammunition; |
| (ii) Surrenders the large capacity feeding device to the police department in the city or town |
| where the person resides in accordance with the procedures for surrender of weapons set forth by |
| the police department or the Rhode Island state police, or, if there is no such police department or |
| the person resides out of state, to the Rhode Island state police; or |
| (iii) Transfers or sells the large capacity feeding device to a federally licensed firearm |
| dealer or person or firm outside the State of Rhode Island that is lawfully entitled to own or possess |
| such a feeding device. |
| (2)(i) Any law enforcement officer exempt under §§ 11-47-9 and 11-47-9.1; or |
| (ii) A retired law enforcement officer exempt under §§ 11-47-9 and 11-47-9.1 who is not |
| otherwise prohibited from receiving such a feeding device from such agency upon retirement, and |
| who has a permit to carry pursuant to § 11-47-18(b). |
| (3) An active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National Guard |
| who is authorized to possess and carry such a feeding device. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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