Silencers, suppressors and automatic weapons while hunting.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0092

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0005

S
ilencers,
suppressors
and automatic weapons
while hunting.

Sponsored by:
Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
game and fish; repealing provisions prohibitin
g the possession of silencers,
suppressors
or automatic weapons
in the game fields and forests;
prohibiting the taking of wildlife with automatic weapons;
providing an additional penalty for use of silencers or suppressors in the commission of specified hunting violations;
providing penalties;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S.
23
‑
3
‑
112
is amended to read:

23
‑
3
‑
112.

Firearms; automatic weapon prohibited
; use of silencer or suppressor to take big or trophy game restricted; penalties
.

(a)

No person shall take
into or possess in the game fields or forests of Wyoming

any wildlife with
any fully automatic weapon
.

or
device designed to silence or mu
ffle the report of any firearm.

(b)

Violation of this section
is separate and additional to any other violation and

constitutes

a high misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23
‑
6
‑
202(
a)(ii).

(c)

No person shall use a device designed to silence or muffle the report of any firearm in
the commission of
:

(
i
)

A viola
tion of W.S. 23
‑
3
‑
102;

(ii)

A violation of W.S. 23
‑
3
‑
107;

(iii)

A violation of W.S. 23
‑
3
‑
305(
b) which results in the taking of a big or trophy game animal; or

(iv)

Taking
of a big or trophy game animal out of season.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

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