Support to Prohibit the Possession or Transfer of Certain Firearm Accessories

Submitted by: Firearms Committee and IACP Board of Directors

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WHEREAS, the National Firearms Act of 1934 describes an automatic weapon as any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger and explicitly includes any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun; and

WHEREAS, the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) imposed a $200 tax and mandatory registration through the Federal NFA Registry on all machine guns and short- barrel firearms; and

WHEREAS, a trigger crank, bump-fire device, and similar attachments or accessories are designed or can function to increase the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm to that of an automatic weapon; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the International Association of Chiefs of Police supports legislation that prohibits the possession, import, manufacture, transfer and sale of trigger cranks, bump-fire devices, and similar attachments or and accessories designed to increase or modify semi-automatic firearms to automatic weapons; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the International Association of Chiefs of Police supports requiring individuals currently in possession of a trigger cranks, bump-fire device, or and similar attachments or and accessories designed to increase or modify semi-automatic firearms to automatic weapons to surrender or register such devices with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) under the National Firearms Act of 1934; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that the IACP supports providing the ATF with the resources needed to enforce a mandatory surrender or registration with respect to bump fire devices and other NFA weapons, including resources necessary to modernize and upgrade its equipment.