---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WEAPONS."
description: "This Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (“Task Force”), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102."
jurisdiction: "us/states/de"
legislature: "Delaware General Assembly"
session: "152"
identifier: "HB 357"
citation: "Delaware HB 357 (152)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Pettyjohn", "Daniel B. Short", "David L. Wilson", "Jeffrey N. Spiegelman", "Lyndon D. Yearick", "Michael Ramone", "Shannon Morris", "Stell Parker Selby"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-03-14"
last_action: "2024-11-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb6b1630-cadf-4d69-b6b6-cd2a718b2f63"
source_url: "https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141067"
source_hash: "4e9e983b6949a38063a89f407b61fdec4d8c3e33ace55532194f594fc70329c8"
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 357 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 6, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, AND TITLE 24 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO WEAPONS.

This Act is the product of the work of the Firearms Definition Task Force (“Task Force”), which was created by this General Assembly under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 102.

## 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=141067&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB357)
2. **SA 1 to HB 357** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GeneratePdfDocument?legislationId=141693&legislationTypeId=5&docTypeId=2)

## Votes

- SM — **37–4** (pass) · lower
- SM — **32–3** (pass) · lower
- SM — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
- Daniel B. Short — primary (person)
- David L. Wilson — primary (person)
- Jeffrey N. Spiegelman — primary (person)
- Lyndon D. Yearick — primary (person)
- Michael Ramone — primary (person)
- Shannon Morris — primary (person)
- Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-03-14** Introduced and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 2 Favorable, 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Passed By House. Votes: 32 YES 3 NO 6 ABSENT `passage`
- **2024-06-20** Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 5 On Its Merits `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-27** Amendment SA 1 to HB 357 - Introduced and Placed With Bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-06-27** Amendment SA 1 to HB 357 - Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-27** Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES `passage`
- **2024-06-30** Passed By House. Votes: 37 YES 4 NO `passage`
- **2024-11-01** 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/bb6b1630-cadf-4d69-b6b6-cd2a718b2f63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).