A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to redefine the term "antique firearm" with regard to the law that regulates the transfer of handguns and with regard to the felony firearms act.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 14‑409.11 reads as rewritten:
"§ 14‑409.11.  "Antique firearm" defined.
(a)	The term "antique firearm" means any of the following:
(1)	Any firearm (including any firearm with a matchlock, flintlock, wheellock, snaphaunce, percussion cap, or similar type of ignition system) manufactured on or before 1918.
(2)	Any replica of any firearm described in subdivision (1) of this subsection if the replica is not designed or redesigned for using rimfire or conventional centerfire fixed ammunition.
(2a)	Any replica of any firearm described in subdivision (1) of this subsection that uses rimfire or conventional center-fire fixed ammunition which is no longer manufactured in the United States and which is not readily available in the ordinary channels of commercial trade.(3)	Any muzzle loading rifle, muzzle loading shotgun, muzzle loading firearm, or muzzle loading pistol, which is designed to use black powder or a black powder substitute, and which cannot use fixed ammunition or be readily converted to fire fixed ammunition by replacing the barrel, bolt, breechblock, or any combination thereof.
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SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2009.  Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.