Prohibiting the sale or transfer of semiautomatic assault weapons to unauthorized persons, providing penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions

A class “C” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than 10 years and a fine of at least $1,000 but not more than $10,000. The bill defines a semiautomatic assault weapon to include a semiautomatic rifle, pistol, or shotgun with certain characteristics, a conversion kit, part, or combination of parts from which a semiautomatic weapon can be assembled, and a frame or receiver that is identical to or based substantially on the frame or receiver or a semiautomatic assault weapon. The bill excludes a firearm that is manually operated by a bolt, pump, lever, or slide action and a firearm that has been rendered permanently inoperable from the definition of a semiautomatic assault weapon. The bill provides that a parent or guardian of a minor may allow the minor to possess a semiautomatic assault weapon.26; a person who is addicted to the use of alcohol or a controlled substance; a person that has, within the previous three years, been convicted of any serious or aggravated misdemeanor defined in Code chapter 708 not involving the use of a firearm or explosive; and a person who is prohibited by federal law from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving a firearm. The bill takes effect upon enactment and applies to the sale or transfer of a semiautomatic assault weapon sold or transferred on or after the effective date of the bill.