REFERENCE TITLE: prohibited laws, rules, ordinances; firearms

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015

HB 2527

Introduced by Representative Kern

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13‑3118, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to firearms.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-3118, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3118.  Possession, transfer or storage of firearms; restrictions prohibited; exceptions

A.  Except for the legislature, this state and any agency or political subdivision of this state shall not enact or implement any law, rule or ordinance relating to the possession, transfer or storage of firearms other than as provided in statute.

B.  This section does not prohibit:

1.  A state, county or municipal judicial department, law enforcement agency or prosecutorial agency from prohibiting a deadly weapon pursuant to section 13-3102, subsection A, paragraph 10.

2.  A political subdivision of this state from enacting any rule or ordinance requiring a business that obtains a secondhand firearm by purchase, trade or consignment to retain the firearm for a period of not more than ten days at its place of business or another storage location that is approved by the applicable law enforcement agency. END_STATUTE