---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DEADLY WEAPONS."
description: "Currently, there is a manufacturer of firearm magazines in Georgetown that employs nearly 90 workers and produces 30, 20, 15, and 10 round magazines."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "151"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "Delaware SB 323 (151)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Ruth Briggs King"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-06-13"
last_action: "2022-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/904063ce-c510-4337-9c35-242d4a8d4d70"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=129686"
source_hash: "cfcf08ee1693d94f6144c08a1b300c2985a711f04c6921cc971fcae7e446464c"
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 SB 323 (151) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO DEADLY WEAPONS.

Currently, there is a manufacturer of firearm magazines in Georgetown that employs nearly 90 workers and produces 30, 20, 15, and 10 round magazines.

## 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=129686&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=SB323)

## Votes

- SM — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- SM — **40–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Ruth Briggs King — primary (person)
- Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
- John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Peter C. Schwartzkopf — cosponsor (person)
- Valerie Longhurst — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-06-13** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** Re-Assigned to Executive Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 2 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage-unfavorable`
- **2022-06-17** Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 NOT VOTING `passage`
- **2022-06-17** Assigned to Administration Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-28** Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 NO `passage`
- **2022-06-30** 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/904063ce-c510-4337-9c35-242d4a8d4d70`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).