Section 724.16. Annual permit to acquire required — transfer prohibited.

  1.  Except as otherwise provided in section 724.15, subsection 2, a person who acquires ownership of a pistol or revolver without a valid annual permit to acquire pistols or revolvers or a person who transfers ownership of a pistol or revolver to a person who does not have in the person’s possession a valid annual permit to acquire pistols or revolvers is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.

  2.  A person who transfers ownership of a pistol or revolver to a person that the transferor knows is prohibited by section 724.15 from acquiring ownership of a pistol or revolver commits a class “D” felony.

[C79, 81, §724.16]

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94 Acts, ch 1172, §54