SF0080 • 2020

Handgun purchases.

AN ACT relating to firearms; providing for a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun; providing an exemption; providing criminal penalties; and providing for an effective date.

Crime Firearms

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Senator Rothfuss
Last action: 2020-02-12
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2020

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status is 'Did Not Pass' and it was never signed into law.

Waiting Period for Handgun Purchases

The bill proposes a three-day waiting period before someone can receive a handgun after purchasing it from a dealer, with exceptions and penalties.

What This Bill Does

Requires gun dealers to wait at least three business days before giving a person who bought a handgun the actual firearm.
Does not apply if another handgun is traded in during the same transaction.
Makes it against the law for a gun dealer to break this rule, with fines and jail time as punishment.
Increases penalties for dealers who break the rule more than once.

Who It Names or Affects

Gun buyers
Gun dealers

Terms To Know

Handgun: A gun designed to be used with one hand, like a pistol or revolver.
Firearms dealer: Any person holding a federal firearms license.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was never signed into law.
It only applies to handgun purchases, not other types of firearms.
Effective date mentioned in the candidate explanation does not match the proposed effective date in the official text.

Bill History

2020-02-12 Senate
S Failed Introduction 2-27-1-0-0
2020-02-10 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2020-02-05 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

20LSO-0492
2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0492
Numbered
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SENATE FILE NO. SF0080

Handgun purchases.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Rothfuss and Representative(s) Connolly and Furphy

A BILL

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AN ACT relating to firearms; providing for a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun; providing an exemption; providing criminal penalties; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

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Waiting period for handgun purchases; exemption; penalties.

(a)

No firearms dealer shall deliver a handgun to a person who has purchased a handgun until three (3) business days have elapsed from the date of the purchase to the date of the delivery.

(b)

Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to the sale and delivery of a handgun if another handgun is exchanged or otherwise traded in by the purchaser during the same transaction.

(c)

Any firearms dealer who violates subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or both. A person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of subsection (a) of this section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, a fine of not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00), or both.

(d)

As used in this section:

(i)

"Handgun" means a firearm designed to be operated with one (1) hand including, without limitation, a pistol, derringer or revolver;

(ii)

"Firearms dealer" means any person holding a federal firearms license.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2020
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