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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREARMS."
+description: "Section 1 of this bill establishes the crimes of possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number, possession of and manufacturing a covert or undetectable firearm, possession of and manufacturing an untraceable firearm, and manufacturing or distributing a firearm using a three-dimensional printer. This bill also makes it a crime to possess a firearm frame or receiver with a removed, obliterated, or altered serial number. This bill makes very limited exceptions to the requirement that certain guns have serial numbers which are: (1) Firearms manufactured before 1968; (2) Muzzle loaders that only use black powder, and antique replicas. Finally, this bill makes clear that § 1463 of Title 11 concerning untraceable firearms does not apply to members of the military forces or members of a police force in this State duly authorized to carry an untraceable firearm, and does not apply to the manufacture or importation for sale to a law-enforcement or military entity in this State."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
+legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
+session: "151"
+identifier: "HB 125"
+citation: "Delaware HB 125 (151)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryan Townsend", "David P. Sokola", "Debra Heffernan", "John L. Mitchell", "Melissa Minor-Brown", "Nicole Poore", "Peter C. Schwartzkopf", "Sarah McBride", "Sean M. Lynn", "Sherry Dorsey Walker", "Valerie Longhurst"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-11"
+last_action: "2021-10-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c5e923b1-b97f-4ddd-b2d3-c7352a80e70f"
+source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=48451"
+source_hash: "204309655cf967582a6c0e2c12fc39566c977385c6bed16f01a1518ce017404f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-de"]
+---
+
+# Delaware HB 125 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO FIREARMS.
+
+Section 1 of this bill establishes the crimes of possession of an unfinished firearm frame or receiver with no serial number, possession of and manufacturing a covert or undetectable firearm, possession of and manufacturing an untraceable firearm, and manufacturing or distributing a firearm using a three-dimensional printer. This bill also makes it a crime to possess a firearm frame or receiver with a removed, obliterated, or altered serial number. This bill makes very limited exceptions to the requirement that certain guns have serial numbers which are: (1) Firearms manufactured before 1968; (2) Muzzle loaders that only use black powder, and antique replicas. Finally, this bill makes clear that § 1463 of Title 11 concerning untraceable firearms does not apply to members of the military forces or members of a police force in this State duly authorized to carry an untraceable firearm, and does not apply to the manufacture or importation for sale to a law-enforcement or military entity in this State.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=48451&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB125)
+2. **HA 1 to HB 125** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=68600&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SM — **13–8** (pass) · upper
+- SM — **23–18** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
+- David P. Sokola — primary (person)
+- Debra Heffernan — primary (person)
+- John L. Mitchell — primary (person)
+- Melissa Minor-Brown — primary (person)
+- Nicole Poore — primary (person)
+- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — primary (person)
+- Sarah McBride — primary (person)
+- Sean M. Lynn — primary (person)
+- Sherry Dorsey Walker — primary (person)
+- Valerie Longhurst — primary (person)
+- David Bentz — cosponsor (person)
+- Eric Morrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Franklin D. Cooke — cosponsor (person)
+- John A. Kowalko — cosponsor (person)
+- Kendra Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Krista Griffith — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle Evans Gay — cosponsor (person)
+- Larry Lambert — cosponsor (person)
+- Nnamdi O. Chukwuocha — cosponsor (person)
+- Paul S. Baumbach — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Elizabeth Lockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Sean Matthews — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephanie L. Hansen — cosponsor (person)
+- Trey Paradee — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-11** Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-16** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 1 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-04-21** Amendment HA 1 to HB 125 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-05-17** Amendment HA 2 to HB 125 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-05-20** Amendment HA 1 to HB 125 - Passed By House. Votes: 41 YES `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Amendment HA 2 to HB 125 - Defeated By House. Votes: 18 YES 23 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-05-20** Passed By House. Votes: 23 YES 18 NO `passage`
+- **2021-05-20** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-10** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
+- **2021-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to HB 125 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
+- **2021-06-15** Amendment SA 1 to HB 125 - Defeated By Senate. Votes: 8 YES 13 NO `amendment-failure`
+- **2021-06-15** Passed By Senate. Votes: 13 YES 8 NO `passage`
+- **2021-10-20** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c5e923b1-b97f-4ddd-b2d3-c7352a80e70f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).
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