PENNSYLVANIA, October 25 - PRINTER'S NO. 957

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

761

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY CAPPELLETTI, FONTANA, KANE, HUGHES, MUTH, KEARNEY,

HAYWOOD, STREET, COSTA, COLLETT, L. WILLIAMS AND SANTARSIERO,

JUNE 24, 2021

REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 24, 2021

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.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 6111(a) and (f)(2) of Title 18 of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

§ 6111. Sale or transfer of firearms.

(a) Time and manner of delivery.--

(1) [Except as provided in paragraph (2), no seller

shall deliver a firearm to the purchaser or transferee

thereof until 48 hours shall have elapsed from the time of

the application for the purchase thereof, and, when

delivered, the firearm shall be securely wrapped and shall be

unloaded.] No seller, licensed importer, licensed dealer,

licensed manufacturer or county sheriff facilitating a

transfer of a firearm between two persons, who are not

licensed importers, licensed dealers or licensed

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