Georgia Code
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-11-113. Offense of Transferring Firearm to Individual Other Than Actual Buyer

History. Code 1981, § 16-11-113 , enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1199, § 2/HB 89; Ga. L. 2018, p. 540, § 1/HB 657; Ga. L. 2018, p. 550, § 4-3/SB 407.
The 2018 amendments. —
The first 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, designated the existing provisions as subsections (a) and (c); added “and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years” at the end of subsection (a); and added subsection (b). The second 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, added subsection designations; in subsection (a), inserted “knowingly”, substituted “to an individual who is not” for “other than to”, inserted “, to an individual who is on probation as a felony first offender pursuant to Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 42, to an individual who is on probation and sentenced for a felony under subsection (a) or (c) of Code Section 16-13-2, or to an individual who has been convicted of a felony by a court of this state or any other state”, and added “and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than five years; provided, however, that upon a second or subsequent conviction, by imprisonment for not less than five nor more than ten years” at the end.
Cross references.
Firearms dealers, T. 43, C. 16.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2008, p. 1199, § 1/HB 89, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Business Security and Employee Privacy Act.’ ”
Law reviews.
For article, “Georgia’s ‘Bring Your Gun to Work’ Law May Not Have the Firepower to Trouble Georgia Employers After All,” see 14 (No. 7) Ga. St. B. J. 12 (2009).
For article on the 2018 amendment of this Code section, see 35 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 45 (2018).
For annual survey on criminal law, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 63 (2018).

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