Bill No.:                     SF0132                                   Drafter:  LGC

LSO No.:                   13LSO-0547                         Effective Date:  7/1/2013

Enrolled Act No.:    SEA0028

Chapter No.:            CH0065

Prime Sponsor:       Senator Driskill

Catch Title:              Silencers, suppressors and automatic weapons.

Subject:                     Hunting regulation.

Summary/Major Elements:

· Under current law, no person shall take into or possess in the game fields and forests of the state any fully automatic weapon or device designed to silence or muffle the report of any firearm.

· This act removes the language referring to “game fields and forests of the state.”  The act prohibits the taking of any wildlife with a fully automatic weapon.

· The act repeals the prohibition on taking into the game fields or forests a device designed to silence or muffle the report of any firearm, but makes it a separate high misdemeanor offense to use a device designed to silence or muffle the report of any firearm to:

· Take certain game animals without a license or during a closed season;

· Wantonly take or destroy any big or trophy game animal;

· Take a big or trophy game animal while trespassing; or

· Take a big or trophy game animal out of season.