republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/152/sb-228.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS.	This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 228. This Act achieves the intent of Senate Bill No. 228 by providing an exception to the general prohibition against semiautomatic pistols that have the ability to accept detachable ammunition magazines that attach at some location other than the pistol grip. This exception permits such a characteristic in the limited circumstance of using a rimfire pistol for competitive shooting or for practice shooting in preparation for competitive shooting. The characteristic is still prohibited outright for any centerfire pistols.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	152	SB 228	Delaware SB 228 (152)	bill		enacted	Brian Pettyjohn Bryan Townsend Dave G. Lawson David L. Wilson Jesse R. Vanderwende Laura V. Sturgeon Shannon Morris Stell Parker Selby	1	7	2	2024-05-14	2024-07-17	openstates	ocd-bill/f92acac3-ee78-4fc1-8391-0865ccbc5a56	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=141380	c4c68179da849f7fcb68500a8885fb661ed3591ecf6cc34ad78e58df857e69e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware SB 228 (152) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 11 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOLS.

This Act is a substitute for Senate Bill No. 228. This Act achieves the intent of Senate Bill No. 228 by providing an exception to the general prohibition against semiautomatic pistols that have the ability to accept detachable ammunition magazines that attach at some location other than the pistol grip. This exception permits such a characteristic in the limited circumstance of using a rimfire pistol for competitive shooting or for practice shooting in preparation for competitive shooting. The characteristic is still prohibited outright for any centerfire pistols.

Version chain

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

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• SM — 40–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Bryan Townsend — primary (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — primary (person)
• David L. Wilson — primary (person)
• Jesse R. Vanderwende — primary (person)
• Laura V. Sturgeon — primary (person)
• Shannon Morris — primary (person)
• Stell Parker Selby — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-05-14 Adopted in lieu of the original bill SB 228, and Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-05-22 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in Senate with 4 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2024-05-23 Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-06-06 Assigned to Judiciary Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Reported Out of Committee (Judiciary) in House with 8 On Its Merits, 1 Unfavorable committee-passage, committee-passage-unfavorable
• 2024-06-30 Passed By House. Votes: 40 YES 1 ABSENT passage
• 2024-07-17 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f92acac3-ee78-4fc1-8391-0865ccbc5a56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).