2025 Regular Session • Maryland Legislature
HB1287: Criminal Law - Firearm Crimes - Convertible Pistols
Legislative Summary
Prohibiting a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain convertible pistol; and defining "convertible pistol" as any semiautomatic pistol that can be converted into a machine gun solely by the attachment of a switch/auto-sear.
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Bill History
2/7/2025
First Reading Judiciary
House of Delegates
2/10/2025
Hearing 3/05 at 1:00 p.m.
House of Delegates
3/4/2025
Hearing canceled
House of Delegates
3/4/2025
Hearing 3/05 at 3:00 p.m.
House of Delegates
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(2/7/2025)
Chamber
House of Delegates
Committee
Judiciary(House of Delegates)
Sponsors
Democrat: 29
Primary Sponsor

Nicole Williams
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (28)
Gabriel Acevero
Democrat
Marlon Amprey
Democrat
Sandy Bartlett
Democrat
Adrian Boafo
Democrat
Lorig Charkoudian
Democrat
Charlotte Crutchfield
Democrat
Elizabeth Embry
Democrat
Terri Hill
Democrat
Aaron Kaufman
Democrat
Robbyn Lewis
Democrat
Lesley Lopez
Democrat
Ashanti Martinez
Democrat
Aletheia McCaskill
Democrat
Bernice Mireku-North
Democrat
Cheryl Pasteur
Democrat
Edith Patterson
Democrat
Scott Phillips
Democrat
Malcolm Ruff
Democrat
Sheila Ruth
Democrat
Emily Shetty
Democrat
Karen Simpson
Democrat
Kym Taylor
Democrat
Karen Toles
Democrat
Veronica Turner
Democrat
Jheanelle Wilkins
Democrat
Greg Wims
Democrat
Jamila Woods
Democrat
Teresa Woorman
Democrat