Firearms transfer to persons who are ineligible to possess firearms prohibition modified.

HF 493 repeals a legal defense that allowed family or household members to avoid criminal charges for transferring firearms to ineligible people when claiming they were forced by threats of harm. The bill removes a specific exception requiring proof that the transfer occurred under compulsion (such as threats of serious injury or death) to excuse violations of firearm transfer rules. This change eliminates the ability to use past domestic abuse or threats as a defense for transferring firearms to individuals prohibited from owning them. The core prohibition on transferring firearms to ineligible persons remains unchanged, but the removed defense previously applied to family or household members in such cases.