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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1740 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To improve the procedures of the national instant criminal background check |
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| 6 | 6 | | system in the case of firearm transfers by federally licensed firearms |
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| 7 | 7 | | importers, manufacturers, and dealers before the completion of the re- |
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| 8 | 8 | | lated criminal background check, and to provide for annual reports |
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| 9 | 9 | | on default firearm transfers. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | FEBRUARY27, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. S |
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| 13 | 13 | | CHNEIDER(for himself, Mr. QUIGLEY, and Mr. PANETTA) introduced |
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| 14 | 14 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To improve the procedures of the national instant criminal |
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| 17 | 17 | | background check system in the case of firearm transfers |
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| 18 | 18 | | by federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, |
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| 19 | 19 | | and dealers before the completion of the related criminal |
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| 20 | 20 | | background check, and to provide for annual reports |
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| 21 | 21 | | on default firearm transfers. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Default Proceed Sale 4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Transparency Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •HR 1740 IH |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 2. IMPROVEMENT OF NICS PROCEDURES IN THE CASE 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | OF DEFAULT FIREARM TRANSFERS. 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (a) R |
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| 33 | 33 | | EQUIREMENT THATFEDERALLYLICENSED 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | F |
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| 35 | 35 | | IREARMIMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS, ANDDEALERS 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | R |
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| 37 | 37 | | EPORTDEFAULTFIREARMTRANSFERS.— 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) I |
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| 39 | 39 | | N GENERAL.—Section 922(t) of title 18, 6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | United States Code, is amended by adding at the 7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | end the following: 8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(7) A licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or 9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | licensed dealer who transfers a firearm in compliance with 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | paragraph (1), but before the national instant criminal 11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | background check system provides the licensee with a 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | unique identification number, shall report the transfer to 13 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the Federal Bureau of Investigation within 24 hours. If 14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | a State or local law enforcement authority is conducting 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | the related background check, the Federal Bureau of In-16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | vestigation shall transmit the report to that authority.’’. 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) C |
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| 52 | 52 | | REATION OF ONLINE PORTAL AND TELE -18 |
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| 53 | 53 | | PHONE HOTLINE.—Within 180 days after the date 19 |
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| 54 | 54 | | of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General 20 |
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| 55 | 55 | | shall create an online portal and telephone hotline, 21 |
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| 56 | 56 | | that are to be used exclusively for the purpose of re-22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | porting sufficient information to allow the Federal 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Bureau of Investigation to prioritize background 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | checks in accordance with section 40901 of title 34, 25 |
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| 60 | 60 | | United States Code. 26 |
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| 63 | 63 | | •HR 1740 IH |
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| 64 | 64 | | (b) PRIORITIZATION OFNICS BACKGROUNDCHECKS 1 |
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| 65 | 65 | | R |
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| 66 | 66 | | ELATING TODEFAULTFIREARMTRANSFERS.—Section 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | U.S.C. 40901) is amended by adding at the end the fol-4 |
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| 69 | 69 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(m) P |
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| 71 | 71 | | RIORITIZATION OFBACKGROUNDCHECKSRE-6 |
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| 72 | 72 | | LATED TODEFAULTFIREARMTRANSFERS.—In the case 7 |
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| 73 | 73 | | of a transfer referred to in section 922(t)(7) of title 18, 8 |
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| 74 | 74 | | United States Code, the system established under this sec-9 |
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| 75 | 75 | | tion shall give priority to completing the background check 10 |
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| 76 | 76 | | relating to the transfer.’’. 11 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (c) P |
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| 78 | 78 | | ROHIBITION ON DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS 12 |
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| 79 | 79 | | R |
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| 80 | 80 | | ELATING TOFIREARMTRANSFERBEFORECOMPLETION 13 |
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| 81 | 81 | | OFBACKGROUND CHECK.—Section 103 of the Brady 14 |
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| 82 | 82 | | Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901), as 15 |
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| 83 | 83 | | amended by subsection (b) of this section, is amended by 16 |
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| 84 | 84 | | adding at the end the following: 17 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(n) P |
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| 86 | 86 | | ROHIBITION ONDESTRUCTION OF RECORDS 18 |
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| 87 | 87 | | R |
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| 88 | 88 | | ELATING TOFIREARMTRANSFERBEFORECOMPLETION 19 |
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| 89 | 89 | | OFRELATEDBACKGROUNDCHECK.—The system estab-20 |
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| 90 | 90 | | lished under this section may not destroy any records of 21 |
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| 91 | 91 | | the system relating to a proposed or completed firearm 22 |
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| 92 | 92 | | transfer, before completion of the criminal background 23 |
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| 93 | 93 | | check with respect to the prospective or actual trans-24 |
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| 94 | 94 | | feree.’’. 25 |
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| 98 | 98 | | SEC. 3. ANNUAL REPORTS ON DEFAULT FIREARM TRANS-1 |
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| 99 | 99 | | FERS. 2 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (a) I |
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| 101 | 101 | | NGENERAL.—Within 300 days after the date 3 |
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| 102 | 102 | | of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 4 |
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| 103 | 103 | | Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall 5 |
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| 104 | 104 | | make accessible to the public a written report on— 6 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (1) the number of firearms transferred as de-7 |
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| 106 | 106 | | scribed in section 922(t)(7) of title 18, United 8 |
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| 107 | 107 | | States Code, during the period covered by the re-9 |
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| 108 | 108 | | port, disaggregated by State; 10 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (2) the number of the firearms described in 11 |
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| 110 | 110 | | paragraph (1) of this subsection with respect to 12 |
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| 111 | 111 | | which the national instant criminal background 13 |
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| 112 | 112 | | check system established under section 103 of the 14 |
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| 113 | 113 | | Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act completed 15 |
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| 114 | 114 | | the background check; 16 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (3) of the number described by paragraph (2) 17 |
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| 116 | 116 | | of this subsection— 18 |
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| 117 | 117 | | (A) the number with respect to which the 19 |
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| 118 | 118 | | system provided the unique identification num-20 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ber under subparagraph (B)(i) or (C)(i) of sec-21 |
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| 120 | 120 | | tion 922(t)(1) of such title; 22 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (B) the number with respect to which in-23 |
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| 122 | 122 | | formation available to the system demonstrated 24 |
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| 123 | 123 | | that transfer of a firearm to, or receipt of a 25 |
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| 124 | 124 | | firearm by, the transferee would violate sub-26 |
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| 127 | 127 | | •HR 1740 IH |
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| 128 | 128 | | section (d), (g), or (n) of section 922 of such 1 |
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| 129 | 129 | | title or State, local, or tribal law; and 2 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (C) in each case described by subpara-3 |
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| 131 | 131 | | graph (B) of this paragraph, the reason for in-4 |
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| 132 | 132 | | dicating that the receipt would be a violation re-5 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ferred to in such subparagraph (B), including 6 |
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| 134 | 134 | | any specific prohibiting criteria that would bar 7 |
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| 135 | 135 | | the transferee from receipt of a firearm or a li-8 |
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| 136 | 136 | | censee from transferring a firearm; 9 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (4) of the number described by paragraph 10 |
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| 138 | 138 | | (3)(B) of this subsection, the number of firearms 11 |
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| 139 | 139 | | that were retrieved from the transferee, and the 12 |
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| 140 | 140 | | number of firearms that were not retrieved from the 13 |
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| 141 | 141 | | transferee, with each number disaggregated by the 14 |
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| 142 | 142 | | field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 15 |
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| 143 | 143 | | Firearms and Explosives and the State involved; 16 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (5) in the case of the first report under this 17 |
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| 145 | 145 | | section, the number of requests for criminal back-18 |
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| 146 | 146 | | ground checks received by the system in the pre-19 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ceding 5 years the records of which were purged 20 |
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| 148 | 148 | | from the system without resolution; and 21 |
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| 149 | 149 | | (6) the number of licensed importers, licensed 22 |
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| 150 | 150 | | manufacturers, or licensed dealers who transferred 23 |
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| 151 | 151 | | firearms as described in section 922(t)(7) of such 24 |
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| 154 | 154 | | •HR 1740 IH |
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| 155 | 155 | | title during the period covered by the report, 1 |
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| 156 | 156 | | disaggregated by the State of sale. 2 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (b) I |
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| 158 | 158 | | NGENERAL.—Within 300 days after the date 3 |
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| 159 | 159 | | of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 4 |
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| 160 | 160 | | Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 5 |
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| 161 | 161 | | Explosives shall make accessible to the public a written 6 |
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| 162 | 162 | | report on— 7 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (1) the average time between receipt and recov-8 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ery of a firearm transferred as described in section 9 |
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| 165 | 165 | | 922(t)(7) of title 18, United States Code, during the 10 |
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| 166 | 166 | | period covered by the report, where the transfer to, 11 |
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| 167 | 167 | | or receipt by, the transferee violated subsection (d), 12 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (g), or (n) of section 922 of such title or State, local, 13 |
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| 169 | 169 | | or tribal law; 14 |
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| 170 | 170 | | (2) the number of firearms transferred as de-15 |
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| 171 | 171 | | scribed in such section 922(t)(7) during the period 16 |
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| 172 | 172 | | covered by the report, that were recovered as part of 17 |
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| 173 | 173 | | a criminal investigation, where receipt by the trans-18 |
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| 174 | 174 | | feree violated such subsection (d), (g), or (n) or 19 |
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| 175 | 175 | | State, local, or tribal law, disaggregated by State; 20 |
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| 176 | 176 | | and 21 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (3) of the number described by paragraph (2) 22 |
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| 178 | 178 | | of this subsection— 23 |
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| 179 | 179 | | (A) the total number of firearms that were 24 |
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| 180 | 180 | | recovered by law enforcement in States other 25 |
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| 184 | 184 | | than the State the firearm was transferred by 1 |
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| 185 | 185 | | a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or 2 |
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| 186 | 186 | | licensed dealer as described in such section 3 |
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| 187 | 187 | | 922(t); and 4 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (B) the information outlined in subpara-5 |
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| 189 | 189 | | graph (A) of this paragraph, disaggregated 6 |
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| 190 | 190 | | by— 7 |
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| 191 | 191 | | (i) the State where the firearm was 8 |
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| 192 | 192 | | recovered; and 9 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (ii) the State where the firearm was 10 |
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| 194 | 194 | | transferred as described in such section 11 |
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| 195 | 195 | | 922(t). 12 |
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| 196 | 196 | | (c) R |
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| 197 | 197 | | ULE OFINTERPRETATION.—A report under 13 |
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| 198 | 198 | | subsection (a) shall be considered an annual statistical re-14 |
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| 199 | 199 | | port and statistical aggregate data for purposes of the 15 |
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| 200 | 200 | | sixth proviso under the heading ‘‘B |
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| 201 | 201 | | UREAU OFALCOHOL, 16 |
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| 202 | 202 | | T |
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| 203 | 203 | | OBACCO, FIREARMS ANDEXPLOSIVES—SALARIES AND 17 |
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| 204 | 204 | | E |
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| 205 | 205 | | XPENSES’’ in the Department of Justice Appropriations 18 |
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| 206 | 206 | | Act, 2012 (title II of division B of Public Law 112–55). 19 |
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