House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

Good. We're good. The State Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please call the roll. Representatives bottoms. Here. Brooks. Present. Carter. Present. Espinosa. Wow. Frey. Froelich. Here. Luck. Here. Wynn. Happy Monday. Bricks. Rick. She was here. Yes. There she is. Clifford. Here. Madam Chair. Here. I'm delighted that we're starting at 1:33, but also a little sad that nobody's going to be interpretive dancing for being late today. We have one bill on the committee, Senate Bill 43. And both of our sponsors are here. Who would like to begin? Representative Froelich. Thank you Madam Chair. And thank you committee for the opportunity to present Senate Bill 43 which closes loophole regarding firearm barrels. Ghost guns experienced a huge surge in popularity over a 1000 increase in recoveries in from law enforcement from 2016-21. And so our General assembly addressed this through a ghost gun bill that we passed in 2023, which was Senate Bill 279. And we recently just passed as a body a 3D printing bill about firearms, which was House Bill 1144. And this, in this bill we are addressing this because gun barrels live outside of this Sphere. Of…