STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 3897

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Assemblyman GREENWALD)

ADOPTED: JUNE 20, 2019

      Senate Bill No. 3897 prohibits persons convicted of certain serious crimes from purchasing or possessing weapons and firearms.  The amended bill also establishes a crime of transporting, shipping, selling, disposing of, or possessing a firearm which is not imprinted with a serial number. 

      These Assembly Amendments add leader of a firearms trafficking network in violation of section 1 of P.L.1995, c.405 (C.2C:39-16) to the list of crimes for which a conviction prohibits the offender from purchasing or possessing a weapon or firearm.