Exempts certain less-than-lethal projectile devices from federal firearms restrictions and from the federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition.

• Amends 18 U.S.C. 921 to define a less-than-lethal projectile device and removes such devices from firearms restrictions.
• Requires the Attorney General to decide within 90 days whether a device qualifies after a person requests a determination.
• Exempts qualifying devices and their designed-for shells or cartridges from the tax under Internal Revenue Code section 4182.
• Requires the Treasury Secretary to publish and annually update lists of qualifying devices and of non-lethal devices whose projectiles exceed 500 feet per second, and to report the latter to the tax-writing committees.

• Judiciary Committee (House)

Crime and Law Enforcement