15 U.S.C. § 5901: Findings

Summary

Protecting the free movement of high-value items across state lines is necessary. These items include currency, bullion, securities, and SNAP benefits. Armored car companies move and guard them, including daily shipments worth more than $1,000,000,000. Crew members face armed attacks, so they carry weapons; States require training and background checks and need to accept other States’ weapons licenses for them.

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Congress finds that—

(1)the distribution of goods and services to consumers in the United States requires the free flow of currency, bullion, securities, supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits, and other items of unusual value in interstate commerce;

(2)the armored car industry transports and protects such items in interstate commerce, including daily transportation of currency and supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits valued at more than $1,000,000,000;

(3)armored car crew members are often subject to armed attack by individuals attempting to steal such items;

(4)to protect themselves and the items they transport, such crew members are armed with weapons;

(5)various States require both weapons training and a criminal record background check before licensing a crew member to carry a weapon; and

(6)there is a need for each State to reciprocally accept weapons licenses of other States for armored car crew members to assure the free and safe transport of valuable items in interstate commerce.

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Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical

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to this section. The

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by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

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2008—Pars. (1), (2). Pub. L. 110–246, § 4002(b)(1)(E), (2)(L), substituted “supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits” for “food stamps”.

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Effective Date

of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

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note under section 8701 of Title 7, Agriculture. Amendment by section 4002(b)(1)(E), (2)(L) of Pub. L. 110–246 effective Oct. 1, 2008, see section 4407 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 1161 of Title 2, The Congress.

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of 1998 Amendment Pub. L. 105–287, § 1, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2776, provided that: “This Act [amending section 5902 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 5902 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Armored Car Reciprocity

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of 1998’.”

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Pub. L. 103–55, § 1, July 28, 1993, 107 Stat. 276, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Armored Car Industry Reciprocity Act of 1993’.”

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