Sec. 29-34. False statement or information in connection with sale or transfer of pistol or revolver prohibited. Sale or transfer to person under twenty-one years of age prohibited. Temporary transfers. Penalties.

(a) No person shall make any false statement or give any false information connected with any purchase, sale, delivery or other transfer of any pistol or revolver. Any person violating any provision of this subsection shall be guilty of a class C felony for which two years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, and five thousand dollars of the fine imposed may not be remitted or reduced by the court unless the court states on the record its reasons for remitting or reducing such fine.

(b) No person shall sell, barter, hire, lend, give, deliver or otherwise transfer to any person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol or revolver, except that a pistol or revolver may be temporarily transferred to any person only for the use by such person in target shooting or on a firing or shooting range, provided such use is otherwise permitted by law and is under the immediate supervision of a person eligible to possess a pistol or revolver. Any person violating any provision of this subsection shall be guilty of a class C felony for which two years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court, and five thousand dollars of the fine imposed may not be remitted or reduced by the court unless the court states on the record its reasons for remitting or reducing such fine.

(c) Any pistol or revolver found in the possession of any person in violation of any provision of this section shall be forfeited.

(1949 Rev., S. 4165; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 2; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2, S. 12; P.A. 99-212, S. 5; P.A. 13-3, S. 48.)

History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 made the provisions of the section applicable to any “other transfer” of a pistol or revolver and to persons who “otherwise transfer” a pistol or revolver, increased the minimum age of a person to whom a pistol or revolver may be transferred from 18 to 21 years of age, and added exception re the temporary transfer of a pistol or revolver to any person for use in target shooting or on a firing or shooting range and under certain conditions; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 designated existing provisions re making a false statement or giving false information as Subsec. (a) and amended said Subsec. to add penalty provisions formerly located in Sec. 29-37(a), designated existing provisions re prohibiting the sale, delivery or transfer of any pistol or revolver to a person under the age of 21 years as Subsec. (b) and amended said Subsec. to add provision that a violation thereof is a class D felony with a 1-year nonsuspendable sentence and added Subsec. (c) re forfeiture of a pistol or revolver, formerly located in Sec. 29-37(a); P.A. 99-212 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the penalty to a class D felony, replacing penalty of a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 3 years or both; P.A. 13-3 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to change penalty from a class D felony to a class C felony for which 2 years of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced and $5,000 of the fine may not be remitted or reduced unless the court states its reasons on the record.

Notation

Cited. 193 C. 7.

Cited. 9 CA 169; judgment reversed, see 205 C. 370.