Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 943 - Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety
Section 53-206g. - Sale, possession, use or manufacture of bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibited. Class D felony or Class D misdemeanor.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, no person, other than a licensed firearms manufacturer under 18 USC 923(i) fulfilling a military contract, may sell, offer to sell, otherwise transfer or offer to transfer, purchase, possess, use or manufacture any rate of fire enhancement.

(b) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, a person who violates any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(c) For purposes of this section, “firearm” means firearm as defined in section 53a-3, and “rate of fire enhancement” means any device, component, part, combination of parts, attachment or accessory that: (1) Uses energy from the recoil of a firearm to generate a reciprocating action that causes repeated function of the trigger, including, but not limited to, a bump stock; (2) repeatedly pulls the trigger of a firearm through the use of a crank, lever or other part, including, but not limited to, a trigger crank; or (3) causes a semiautomatic firearm to fire more than one round per operation of the trigger, where the trigger pull and reset constitute a single operation of the trigger, including, but not limited to, a binary trigger system.
(d) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, any person who holds a valid permit to carry a pistol or revolver issued pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-28, a valid eligibility certificate for a pistol or revolver issued pursuant to section 29-36f, a valid long gun eligibility certificate issued pursuant to section 29-37p or an ammunition certificate issued or renewed pursuant to section 29-38n or section 29-38o and possesses a rate of fire enhancement prior to July 1, 2019, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor for a first offense and shall be guilty of a class D felony for any subsequent offense.
(e) (1) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, any person who moves into the state in lawful possession of a rate of fire enhancement shall, within ninety days, render the rate of fire enhancement permanently inoperable, remove the rate of fire enhancement from this state, or surrender the rate of fire enhancement to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for destruction and, during such ninety-day period, shall not be subject to the penalties in subsection (b) or (d) of this section.
(B) Any such person who sells or offers to sell or otherwise transfers or offers to transfer, except as permitted by subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, or uses such rate of fire enhancement during such ninety-day period, shall be subject to the penalties in subsection (b) or (d) of this section, as applicable.
(2) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, any military personnel stationed or otherwise residing in this state who is deployed from this state on October 1, 2018, or is under deployment from this state on said date, and who was in lawful possession of a rate of firearm enhancement on September 30, 2018, shall, within ninety days of returning to this state from deployment, render the rate of fire enhancement permanently inoperable, remove the rate of fire enhancement from this state or surrender the rate of fire enhancement to the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for destruction.
(B) Except as provided in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, any such military personnel who sells or offers to sell or otherwise transfers or offers to transfer, except as permitted by subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, or uses such rate of fire enhancement during such ninety-day period, shall be subject to the penalties in subsection (b) or (d) of this section, as applicable.
(f) If the court finds that a violation of this section is not of a serious nature and that the person charged with such violation (1) will probably not offend in the future, (2) has not previously been convicted of a violation of this section, and (3) has not previously had a prosecution under this section suspended pursuant to this subsection, it may order suspension of prosecution in accordance with the provisions of subsection (h) of section 29-33.
(P.A. 18-29, S. 1.)

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 53 - Crimes

Chapter 943 - Offenses Against Public Peace and Safety

Section 53-169 to 53-180. - Dispersion of riotous assembly. Disturbance of meetings and elections. Refusal to assist public officer. Breach of the peace; intimidation; libel. Indecent or harassing telephone calls. Disorderly conduct. False informatio...

Section 53-181. - Soliciting rides in motor vehicles.

Section 53-182. - Use of highways by pedestrians.

Section 53-183 to 53-189. - Animals on highway, generally. Transportation of wild animals. Signal lights and exhausts or mufflers on motor boats. Reckless operation of motor boats.

Section 53-190. - Power boats on Killingly Pond, Alexander's Lake or Lake Wononscopomuc.

Section 53-191. - Motorboats on Bolton Ponds and Gardner's Lake.

Section 53-192 and 53-193. - Speed of boats in Wethersfield Cove. Lights on boats on Highland Lake.

Section 53-194. - Preservation of Bantam Lake.

Section 53-195 to 53-197. - Abandonment or obstruction of engines or cars. Hindering street railway company in use of its tracks. Neglect to close gates and bars at railroad crossings; protection at ferry docks.

Section 53-198. - Smoking in motor buses, railroad cars and school buses.

Section 53-199. - Theaters and moving picture shows; seating capacity; standing room.

Section 53-200. - Prize fighting.

Section 53-201. - Witnessing or aiding prize fights.

Section 53-202. - Machine guns.

Section 53-202a. - Assault weapons: Definitions.

Section 53-202aa. - Firearms trafficking: Class C or B felony.

Section 53-202b. - Sale or transfer of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Olympic pistols. Regulations. Class C felony.

Section 53-202c. - Possession of assault weapon prohibited. Exemptions. Class D felony.

Section 53-202d. - Certificate of possession of assault weapon. Certificate of transfer of assault weapon to gun dealer. Circumstances where possession of assault weapon authorized.

Section 53-202e. - Relinquishment of assault weapon to law enforcement agency.

Section 53-202f. - Transportation and transfer of assault weapon. Authorized actions of gun dealer, manufacturer, pawnbroker or consignment shop operator.

Section 53-202g. - Report of loss or theft of assault weapon or other firearm. Penalty.

Section 53-202h. - Temporary transfer or possession of assault weapon for transport to out-of-state event.

Section 53-202i. - Circumstances in which manufacture, transportation or temporary transfer of assault weapons not prohibited.

Section 53-202j. - Commission of a class A, B or C felony with an assault weapon: Eight-year nonsuspendable sentence.

Section 53-202k. - Commission of a class A, B or C felony with a firearm: Five-year nonsuspendable sentence.

Section 53-202l. - Armor piercing and incendiary .50 caliber ammunition: Definition. Sale or transfer prohibited. Class D felony.

Section 53-202m. - Circumstances when assault weapons exempt from limitations on transfers and registration requirements.

Section 53-202n. - Possession of specified assault weapon permitted under certain circumstances. Notice requirement.

Section 53-202o. - Affirmative defense in prosecution for possession of specified assault weapon.

Section 53-202w. - Large capacity magazines. Definitions. Sale, transfer or possession prohibited. Exceptions.

Section 53-202x. - Declaration of possession of large capacity magazine. Regulations.

Section 53-203. - Unlawful discharge of firearms.

Section 53-204. - Hunting or discharging firearm from public highway.

Section 53-205. - Loaded shotguns, rifles and muzzleloaders prohibited in vehicles and snowmobiles.

Section 53-206. - Carrying of dangerous weapons prohibited.

Section 53-206a. - Application for permit. Notice of decision to applicant.

Section 53-206b. - Unlawful training in use of firearms, explosive or incendiary devices or techniques capable of causing injury. Class C felony.

Section 53-206c. - Sale, carrying and brandishing of facsimile firearms prohibited. Class B misdemeanor.

Section 53-206d. - Carrying a firearm or hunting while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drug prohibited.

Section 53-206e. - Limitation on sale and use of laser pointers.

Section 53-206f. - Failure of parent or guardian to halt illegal possession of firearm by minor child.

Section 53-206g. - Sale, possession, use or manufacture of bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibited. Class D felony or Class D misdemeanor.

Section 53-206h. - Bump stocks or other rates of fire enhancement prohibition. Notice.

Section 53-206i. - Manufacture of firearm from polymer plastic without detectable security exemplar. Prohibited. Penalty.

Section 53-206j. - Sale, delivery or transfer of unfinished frame or lower receiver. Prohibited. Exceptions. Penalty.

Section 53-206k. - Conditions for sale or transfer of electronic defense weapons. Penalty.

Section 53-207 to 53-209. - Carrying of knife or razor with intent to assault. Removal of danger signal. Abuse of public utility employees.

Section 53-209a. - Manufacture of chemical, biological or radioactive weapon.

Section 53-210. - Refusal to relinquish telephone party line.

Section 53-211. - Use of white canes by others than blind persons prohibited. Vehicles to reduce speed, grant right-of-way.

Section 53-212. - Use of Roentgen-rays, x-rays and radium.

Section 53-212a. - Use of fluoroscopic x-ray shoe-fitting devices prohibited.

Section 53-212b to 53-214. - Use of machinery in proximity to high voltage conductors. Spitting in public places. Pollution of drinking utensils.

Section 53-215. - Abandonment of refrigerator.

Section 53-215a. - Manufacture or sale of defective recapped tires.