MISD. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/PROHIBIT FIREARMS.

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
Senate Bill 779 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 30, 2024
AN ACT TO PROHIBIT A PERSON CONVICTED OF A MISDEMEANOR CRIME OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OFFENSE FROM PURCHASING OR POSSESSING A FIREARM AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO USE TO MAKE THE PUBLIC AWARE OF THIS PROHIBITION.
Intro. by Chaudhuri.

Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (May 1 2024)

Bill History:

S 779

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Apr 30 2024 - View Summary

    Enacts new GS 14-269.9 making it a Class A1 misdemeanor for a person to possess, purchase, or receive or attempt to possess, purchase, or receive a firearm (as defined in the firearms definitions set forth in GS 14-409.39), machine gun, ammunition, or permits to purchase or carry concealed firearms if the person has been adjudicated guilty of or received a prayer for judgment continued or suspended sentence for an offense (1) under GS 14-32.5 (misdemeanor crime of domestic violence) or (2) in another state that, if committed in this state, is substantially similar to an offense under GS 14-32.5  Effective on the thirtieth day after the date of issuance of a U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Rahimi, providing that domestic violence firearms restrictions are constitutional.  Specifies that prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of the act are not abated or affected, and the statutes that would be applicable but for the act remain applicable to those prosecutions. 

    Effective July 1, 2024, appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety in nonrecurring funds for the 2024-25 fiscal year to be used to disseminate information to the public about the prohibition set forth above on the purchase or possession of firearms by persons convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The funds appropriated in this section do not revert and cannot be used until the prohibitions set forth above become effective.