2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 29-34. False statement or information in connection with sale or transfer of pistol or revolver prohibited. Sale or transfer to person under twenty-one years of age prohibited. Temporary transfers. Penalties.

      Sec. 29-34. False statement or information in connection with sale or transfer of pistol or revolver prohibited. Sale or transfer to person under twenty-one years of age prohibited. Temporary transfers. Penalties. (a) No person shall make any false statement or give any false information connected with any purchase, sale, delivery or other transfer of any pistol or revolver. Any person violating any provision of this subsection shall be guilty of a class D felony.

      (b) No person shall sell, barter, hire, lend, give, deliver or otherwise transfer to any person under the age of twenty-one years any pistol or revolver, except that a pistol or revolver may be temporarily transferred to any person only for the use by such person in target shooting or on a firing or shooting range, provided such use is otherwise permitted by law and is under the immediate supervision of a person eligible to possess a pistol or revolver. Any person violating any provision of this subsection shall be guilty of a class D felony for which one year of the sentence imposed may not be suspended or reduced by the court.

      (c) Any pistol or revolver found in the possession of any person in violation of any provision of this section shall be forfeited.

      (1949 Rev., S. 4165; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 2; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2, S. 12; P.A. 99-212, S. 5.)

      History: July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 made the provisions of the section applicable to any "other transfer" of a pistol or revolver and to persons who "otherwise transfer" a pistol or revolver, increased the minimum age of a person to whom a pistol or revolver may be transferred from eighteen to twenty-one years of age, and added exception re the temporary transfer of a pistol or revolver to any person for use in target shooting or on a firing or shooting range and under certain conditions; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-2 designated existing provisions re making a false statement or giving false information as Subsec. (a) and amended said Subsec. to add penalty provisions formerly located in Sec. 29-37(a), designated existing provisions re prohibiting the sale, delivery or transfer of any pistol or revolver to a person under the age of twenty-one years as Subsec. (b) and amended said Subsec. to add provision that a violation thereof is a class D felony with a one-year nonsuspendable sentence and added Subsec. (c) re forfeiture of a pistol or revolver, formerly located in Sec. 29-37(a); P.A. 99-212 amended Subsec. (a) to increase the penalty to a class D felony, replacing penalty of a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment of not more than three years or both.

      Cited. 193 C. 7, 8, 12.

      Cited. 9 CA 169, 171; judgment reversed, see 205 C. 370, 385.