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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1456
To require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to law enforcement
authorities within 48 hours, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY21, 2025
Mr. C
ASTEN(for himself, Ms. KELLYof Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. MAG-
AZINER, Mrs. MCIVER, Ms. TITUS, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. CLARKEof New
York, Mr. G
OLDMANof New York, Ms. BROWN, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Ms.
D
ELBENE, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI, Mr. THANEDAR, Mr.
E
VANSof Pennsylvania, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Mr. MOULTON, and
Mr. M
IN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to law
enforcement authorities within 48 hours, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gun Trafficker Detec-4
tion Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. REPORTING OF LOST OR STOLEN FIREARMS TO 1
LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES. 2
(a) R
EPORTINGREQUIREMENT.— 3
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 922 of title 18, 4
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 5
end the following: 6
‘‘(aa)(1) Within 48 hours after a person not licensed 7
under this chapter who owns a firearm that has been 8
shipped or transported in, or has been possessed in or af-9
fecting, interstate or foreign commerce, discovers or rea-10
sonably should have discovered the theft or loss of the fire-11
arm, the person shall report the theft or loss to the Attor-12
ney General. If the report to the Attorney General is not 13
submitted through a web portal created by the Attorney 14
General for such purpose, the person shall report the theft 15
or loss to local law enforcement authorities. 16
‘‘(2) Within 72 hours after the Attorney General re-17
ceives a report through the web portal pursuant to para-18
graph (1), the Attorney General shall notify the chief law 19
enforcement officer of the jurisdiction in which the theft 20
or loss occurred of the name and address of the reporting 21
person.’’. 22
(2) R
EPORTING.— 23
(A) C
REATION OF WEB-BASED PORTAL.— 24
Within 180 days after the date of the enact-25
ment of this Act, the Attorney General shall 26
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create a web-based electronic portal, which 1
members of the public may use to report the 2
theft or loss of a firearm to the Attorney Gen-3
eral pursuant to section 922(aa) of title 18, 4
United States Code, that includes a notice to 5
users of the penalties under section 924(a)(1) 6
of such title for knowingly making a false state-7
ment or representation in such a report. 8
(B) U
SE OF FUNDS REQUIREMENTS .—Sec-9
tion 502(a) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 10
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 11
U.S.C. 10153(a)) is amended by adding at the 12
end the following: 13
‘‘(7) An assurance that, for each fiscal year 14
covered by an application, the applicant will use not 15
less than 5 percent of the total amount of the grant 16
award for the fiscal year to study and implement ef-17
fective management and collection of data relating to 18
lost or stolen firearms reported to a law enforcement 19
agency of the applicant under section 922(aa) of 20
title 18, United States Code, unless the applicant 21
has ensured, and the Attorney General has certified, 22
that the applicant has in effect such laws and proce-23
dures as are necessary to ensure that each such re-24
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port is forwarded to the National Crime Information 1
Center.’’. 2
(3) P
ENALTIES.—Section 924 of title 18, 3
United States Code, is amended by adding at the 4
end the following: 5
‘‘(q) With respect to a violation of section 922(aa), 6
the Attorney General shall, after notice and opportunity 7
for a hearing— 8
‘‘(1)(A) in the case of a first violation, subject 9
the person to a civil money penalty of not more than 10
$1,000; or 11
‘‘(B) in the case of a second or subsequent vio-12
lation, subject the person to a civil money penalty of 13
not more than $5,000; and 14
‘‘(2) in the case of any violation, notify the per-15
son of the prohibitions set forth in section 16
922(bb).’’. 17
(b) P
ROHIBITION ON FIREARMRECEIPTAFTER 18
M
ULTIPLECONVICTIONS.— 19
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Section 922 of title 18, 20
United States Code, as amended by subsection 21
(a)(1) of this section, is amended by adding at the 22
end the following: 23
‘‘(bb)(1) It shall be unlawful for a person who has 24
been twice assessed a civil money penalty under section 25
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924(q) to receive a firearm during the 1-year period that 1
begins with the date of the most recent such assessment. 2
‘‘(2) It shall be unlawful for a person who has been 3
thrice assessed a civil money penalty under section 924(q) 4
to receive a firearm during the 5-year period that begins 5
with the date of the most recent such assessment.’’. 6
(2) P
ENALTIES.—Section 924(a)(5) of title 18, 7
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘or (t)’’ 8
and inserting ‘‘(t), or (bb)’’. 9
(c) P
ROHIBITION ON FALSEREPORTING.—Section 10
924(a)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 11
by striking ‘‘chapter or’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter, in report-12
ing a lost or stolen firearm pursuant to section 922(aa), 13
or’’. 14
(d) U
PDATING OF NATIONALINSTANTCRIMINAL 15
B
ACKGROUNDCHECKSYSTEM.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Within 6 months after the 17
date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney Gen-18
eral shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to 19
ensure that— 20
(A) the national instant criminal back-21
ground check system takes account of section 22
922(bb) of title 18, United States Code, in per-23
forming the functions of the system; and 24
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(B) all persons licensed under chapter 44 1
of such title provide notice of the penalties for 2
violations of section 922(aa) of such title to any 3
person not so licensed who acquires a firearm 4
from the licensee. 5
(2) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 6
(A) The following provisions of section 103 7
of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act 8
(34 U.S.C. 40901) are each amended by strik-9
ing ‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(g), (n), or 10
(bb)’’: 11
(i) Subparagraphs (A), (C), 12
(F)(iii)(I), and (G)(i) of subsection (e)(1). 13
(ii) Subsection (g). 14
(iii) Subsection (i)(2). 15
(iv) Subsection (l)(3)(B). 16
(B) The following provisions of title 18, 17
United States Code, are each amended by strik-18
ing ‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(g), (n), or 19
(bb)’’: 20
(i) Subparagraphs (B)(ii) and 21
(C)(iii)(II) of section 922(t)(1). 22
(ii) Section 923(g)(3)(B). 23
(iii) Section 925A(2). 24
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(C) Paragraphs (2), (4), and (5) of section 1
922(t) of title 18, United States Code, are each 2
amended by striking ‘‘(g), or (n)’’ and inserting 3
‘‘(g), (n), or (bb)’’. 4
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 5
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 6
take effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 7
Act. 8
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