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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB4451Relating to possessing, manufacturing, transporting, repairing, or selling a machine gun.
Direction
Firearmsweapon accessory restrictionsAI label
↑Expands gun accessmodel confidence 90%
Removes machine guns from the list of prohibited weapons in state penal code (except for unregistered NFA items), so fewer state restrictions on machine guns.
(1) any of the following items, unless the item is registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or otherwise not subject to that registration requirement or unless the item is classified as a curio or relic by the United States Department of Justice: (A) an explosive weapon; or (B) [deleted: a machine gun; or (C)] a short-barrel firearm;
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FirearmsotherAI label
=No change to gun accessmodel confidence 80%
Repeals the statutory definition of 'machine gun' in Penal Code 46.01(9), which is no longer needed after its removal from the prohibited-weapons list.
Section 46.01(9), Penal Code is repealed.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-04-03: Referred to Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Filed
2025-03-11
Committee
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill deletes 'a machine gun' from the list of weapons whose possession, manufacture, transport, repair or sale is a state crime (unless NFA-registered), thereby expanding state-law access to machine guns while leaving federal NFA rules in place; the repeal of the definition is a conforming change with no independent policy effect.
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