---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firearm Regulation Amendments."
description: "Firearm Regulation Amendments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "HB 622"
citation: "North Carolina HB 622 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEY GENERAL", "COMMERCE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETAILING", "TORTS", "WEAPONS", "REP. MITCHELL", "REP. SEXTON", "REP. WARNER", "REP. WARWICK", "LIABILITY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-03-14"
last_action: "2002-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f4aca56-722c-4612-97bd-a50a0ca91653"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=H622&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "839f96d080bce5041341d0e3d23a00626d65279607a01c87e96a734683cdeb45"
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-nc"]
---

# North Carolina HB 622 (2001) — Firearm Regulation Amendments.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H622v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H622v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H622v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2002-77** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/House/PDF/H622v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **93–11** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **42–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — cosponsor (person)
- Allred — cosponsor (person)
- Arnold — cosponsor (person)
- Barbee — cosponsor (person)
- Barefoot — cosponsor (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Bonner — cosponsor (person)
- Bowie — cosponsor (person)
- Brubaker — cosponsor (person)
- Buchanan — cosponsor (person)
- Cansler — cosponsor (person)
- Capps — cosponsor (person)
- Carpenter — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Cox — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Creech — cosponsor (person)
- Culp — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Decker — cosponsor (person)
- Dedmon — cosponsor (person)
- Dockham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Ellis — cosponsor (person)
- Esposito — cosponsor (person)
- Fox — cosponsor (person)
- Gibson — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Gulley — cosponsor (person)
- Haire — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hilton — cosponsor (person)
- Howard — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Jarrell — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Justus — cosponsor (person)
- Kiser — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- McComas — cosponsor (person)
- McCombs — cosponsor (person)
- McMahan — cosponsor (person)
- Miner — cosponsor (person)
- Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
- Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Nye — cosponsor (person)
- Owens — cosponsor (person)
- Pope — cosponsor (person)
- Preston — cosponsor (person)
- Rayfield — cosponsor (person)
- Redwine — cosponsor (person)
- Russell — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Sexton — cosponsor (person)
- Sherrill — cosponsor (person)
- Shubert — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Starnes — cosponsor (person)
- Sutton — cosponsor (person)
- Teague — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)
- Tolson — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Wainwright — cosponsor (person)
- Walend — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)
- Warwick — cosponsor (person)
- Weatherly — cosponsor (person)
- West — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Womble — cosponsor (person)
- Wright — cosponsor (person)
- Yongue — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-08-15** Ch. SL 2002-77 `became-law`
- **2002-08-15** Signed By Gov. 8/15/2002 `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-09** Pres. To Gov. 8/9/2002 `executive-receipt`
- **2002-08-08** Ratified
- **2002-08-05** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-01** Placed On Cal For 8/5/2002
- **2002-08-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2002-08-01** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2002-07-18** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2002-07-18** Rec To Concur S Com Sub
- **2002-07-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2002-07-10** Placed On Cal For 7/16/2002
- **2002-07-10** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2002-07-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2002-07-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-25** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-25** Rec From House
- **2001-04-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-04-24** Placed On Cal For 4/25/2001
- **2001-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-24** Reptd Without Prejudice
- **2001-04-11** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-11** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2001-04-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2001-04-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-03-15** Ref To Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f4aca56-722c-4612-97bd-a50a0ca91653`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).