Tag: HB 423

House Passes Gun Safety Bills Raising Age to Purchase Firearms, Strengthening Background Check System

DOVER – Continuing the General Assembly’s efforts to address gun safety issues, the House passed two measures Tuesday that would raise the age to purchase firearms to 21 and strengthen background checks. Federal law requires a buyer to be at […]

Mitchell Bill Would Strengthen Background Checks by Re-Establishing Local Firearm Check Program

DOVER – In an effort to strengthen background checks, reduce straw purchases and provide more local control over firearms purchases, lawmakers filed a measure Friday that would reinstitute the Firearm Transaction Approval Program (FTAP). Federal law permits states to require […]