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Noted for December 17, 2012

Libertarian Automatic Weapons Safety

One Hundred Thirteenth Congress of the United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the fifth day of January, two thousand and thirteen

An Act Entitled The Firearms Responsibility Act of 2013.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the "Firearms Responsibility Act of 2013

TITLE I: LIABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY

Section 1: Liability

(a) If any firearm is used to inflict death or injury on five or more people on any single day

(b) All present and past owners of that firearm shall jointly and severally be strictly liable for all legal damages arising from any and all uses of that firearm.

(c ) Should any of the present or past owners liable under the terms of this act be a corporation,

(i) The corporation's present and past officers shall jointly and severally be strictly liable for all legal damages arising from any and all uses of that firearm.

(ii) The corporation's present and past directors shall jointly and severally be strictly liable for all legal damages arising from any and all uses of that firearm.

(iii) The corporation's present and past plurality shareholder shall jointly and severally be strictly liable for all legal damages arising from any and all uses of that firearm.

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