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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 923 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or possession of |
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| 6 | 6 | | .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY4, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | ASTROof Texas (for himself, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. FROST, Mrs. RAMIREZ, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Ms. N |
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| 12 | 12 | | ORTON, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. |
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| 13 | 13 | | C |
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| 14 | 14 | | ASAR, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. MAG- |
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| 15 | 15 | | AZINER, Mr. AUCHINCLOSS, Ms. SCANLON, Mr. CARBAJAL, and Mr. |
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| 16 | 16 | | V |
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| 17 | 17 | | ARGAS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- |
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| 18 | 18 | | mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and |
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| 19 | 19 | | Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in |
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| 20 | 20 | | each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic- |
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| 21 | 21 | | tion of the committee concerned |
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| 22 | 22 | | A BILL |
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| 23 | 23 | | To prohibit the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or |
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| 24 | 24 | | possession of .50 caliber rifles, and for other purposes. |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Arming Cartels 4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON RIFLES CAPABLE OF FIRING .50 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | CALIBER AMMUNITION. 2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (a) I |
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| 36 | 36 | | NGENERAL.—Chapter 44 of title 18, United 3 |
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| 37 | 37 | | States Code, is amended— 4 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) in section 922, by adding at the end the fol-5 |
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| 39 | 39 | | lowing: 6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(aa) R |
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| 41 | 41 | | IFLESCAPABLE OFFIRING.50 CALIBERAM-7 |
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| 42 | 42 | | MUNITION.— 8 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 44 | 44 | | N GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-9 |
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| 45 | 45 | | graph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person to im-10 |
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| 46 | 46 | | port, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or af-11 |
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| 47 | 47 | | fecting interstate or foreign commerce, a rifle capa-12 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ble of firing .50 caliber ammunition. 13 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 50 | 50 | | XCEPTIONS.— 14 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(A) G |
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| 52 | 52 | | OVERNMENT USE .—Paragraph (1) 15 |
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| 53 | 53 | | shall not apply to the importation for, manufac-16 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ture for, sale to, transfer to, or possession by 17 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the United States, a department or agency of 18 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the United States, a State, or a department, 19 |
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| 57 | 57 | | agency, or political subdivision of a State, of a 20 |
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| 58 | 58 | | rifle capable of firing .50 caliber ammunition. 21 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ‘‘(B) G |
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| 60 | 60 | | RANDFATHERED RIFLES .—Para-22 |
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| 61 | 61 | | graph (1) shall not apply to the sale, transfer, 23 |
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| 62 | 62 | | or possession of any rifle otherwise lawfully pos-24 |
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| 63 | 63 | | sessed on or before the date of enactment of the 25 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2025.’’; and 26 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (2) in section 924(a)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘or 1 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (q)’’ and inserting ‘‘(q), or (aa)’’. 2 |
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| 70 | 70 | | (b) I |
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| 71 | 71 | | NCLUSION OFCERTAINRIFLES ASFIREARMS 3 |
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| 72 | 72 | | U |
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| 73 | 73 | | NDERNATIONALFIREARMSACT.— 4 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (1) I |
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| 75 | 75 | | N GENERAL.—Section 5845(a) of the In-5 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking 6 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘and (8) a destructive device’’ and inserting ‘‘(8) a 7 |
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| 78 | 78 | | destructive device; and (9) a rifle which is capable 8 |
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| 79 | 79 | | of firing .50 caliber ammunition and is lawfully pos-9 |
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| 80 | 80 | | sessed on or before the date of enactment of the 10 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Stop Arming Cartels Act of 2025’’. 11 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (2) E |
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| 83 | 83 | | FFECTIVE DATE.— 12 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (A) I |
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| 85 | 85 | | N GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-13 |
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| 86 | 86 | | graph (B), the amendments made by this sub-14 |
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| 87 | 87 | | section shall take effect on the date which is 12 15 |
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| 88 | 88 | | months after the date of enactment of this Act. 16 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (B) R |
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| 90 | 90 | | EGISTRATION.— 17 |
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| 91 | 91 | | (i) I |
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| 92 | 92 | | N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 18 |
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| 93 | 93 | | subparagraph (A) or any other provision of 19 |
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| 94 | 94 | | law, any person possessing a rifle which is 20 |
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| 95 | 95 | | capable of firing .50 caliber ammunition 21 |
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| 96 | 96 | | which is not registered to such person in 22 |
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| 97 | 97 | | the National Firearms Registration and 23 |
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| 98 | 98 | | Transfer Record shall register each such 24 |
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| 99 | 99 | | rifle so possessed with the Secretary in 25 |
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| 103 | 103 | | such form and manner as the Secretary 1 |
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| 104 | 104 | | may require within the 12-month period 2 |
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| 105 | 105 | | immediately following the date of enact-3 |
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| 106 | 106 | | ment of this Act. No fee or tax shall be im-4 |
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| 107 | 107 | | posed with respect to any registration re-5 |
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| 108 | 108 | | quired under this subparagraph. 6 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (ii) I |
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| 110 | 110 | | NCLUSION IN REGISTRY .—Any 7 |
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| 111 | 111 | | registration described in clause (i) shall be-8 |
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| 112 | 112 | | come a part of the National Firearms Reg-9 |
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| 113 | 113 | | istration and Transfer Record. No infor-10 |
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| 114 | 114 | | mation or evidence required to be sub-11 |
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| 115 | 115 | | mitted or retained by a natural person to 12 |
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| 116 | 116 | | register a firearm under this subparagraph 13 |
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| 117 | 117 | | shall be used, directly or indirectly, as evi-14 |
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| 118 | 118 | | dence against such person in any criminal 15 |
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| 119 | 119 | | proceeding with respect to a prior or con-16 |
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| 120 | 120 | | current violation of law. 17 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (C) D |
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| 122 | 122 | | EFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 18 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (i) N |
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| 124 | 124 | | ATIONAL FIREARMS REGISTRA -19 |
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| 125 | 125 | | TION AND TRANSFER RECORD .—The term 20 |
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| 126 | 126 | | ‘‘National Firearms Registration and 21 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Transfer Record’’ means the registry es-22 |
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| 128 | 128 | | tablished pursuant to section 5841 of the 23 |
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| 129 | 129 | | Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 24 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (ii) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Sec-1 |
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| 134 | 134 | | retary’’ has the same meaning given such 2 |
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| 135 | 135 | | term under section 7701(a)(11)(B) of the 3 |
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| 136 | 136 | | Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 4 |
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| 137 | 137 | | SEC. 3. EXCEPTION TO COVERAGE UNDER PROTECTION OF 5 |
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| 138 | 138 | | LAWFUL COMMERCE IN ARMS ACT. 6 |
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| 139 | 139 | | Section 4(5)(A) of the Protection of Lawful Com-7 |
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| 140 | 140 | | merce in Arms Act (15 U.S.C. 7903(5)(A)) is amended— 8 |
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| 141 | 141 | | (1) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; 9 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (2) in clause (vi), by striking the period at the 10 |
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| 143 | 143 | | end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 11 |
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| 144 | 144 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 12 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ‘‘(vii) an action brought against a 13 |
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| 146 | 146 | | manufacturer or seller that knowingly sells 14 |
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| 147 | 147 | | or transfers a qualified product, or at-15 |
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| 148 | 148 | | tempts or conspires to do so, knowing or 16 |
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| 149 | 149 | | having reasonable cause to believe that the 17 |
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| 150 | 150 | | transaction is prohibited under section 18 |
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| 151 | 151 | | 805(c) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin 19 |
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| 152 | 152 | | Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1904(c)).’’. 20 |
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| 153 | 153 | | SEC. 4. FEDERAL FIREARM PROHIBITOR FOR SIGNIFICANT 21 |
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| 154 | 154 | | FOREIGN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKERS AND 22 |
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| 155 | 155 | | CERTAIN OTHER FOREIGN PERSONS. 23 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (a) I |
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| 157 | 157 | | NGENERAL.—Section 922(d) of title 18, United 24 |
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| 158 | 158 | | States Code, is amended— 25 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (1) in paragraph (10), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the 1 |
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| 163 | 163 | | end; 2 |
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| 164 | 164 | | (2) by redesignating paragraph (11) as para-3 |
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| 165 | 165 | | graph (12); 4 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (3) by inserting after paragraph (10) the fol-5 |
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| 167 | 167 | | lowing: 6 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘(11) is— 7 |
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| 169 | 169 | | ‘‘(A) a significant foreign narcotics traf-8 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ficker publicly identified by the President in a 9 |
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| 171 | 171 | | report under subsection (b) or (h)(1) of section 10 |
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| 172 | 172 | | 804 of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designa-11 |
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| 173 | 173 | | tion Act (21 U.S.C. 1903); or 12 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(B) a foreign person designated by the 13 |
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| 175 | 175 | | Secretary of the Treasury under section 805(b) 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation 15 |
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| 177 | 177 | | Act (21 U.S.C. 1904(b)); or’’; and 16 |
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| 178 | 178 | | (4) in paragraph (12), as so redesignated, by 17 |
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| 179 | 179 | | striking ‘‘(10)’’ and inserting ‘‘(11)’’. 18 |
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| 180 | 180 | | (b) C |
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| 181 | 181 | | ONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO 19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | NICS.—Section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Pre-20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | vention Act (34 U.S.C. 40901) is amended— 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (1) in subsection (b)(2)(D), by inserting ‘‘or 22 |
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| 185 | 185 | | that transfer of a firearm or ammunition to the indi-23 |
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| 186 | 186 | | vidual would violate subsection (d)(11) of such sec-24 |
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| 190 | 190 | | tion 922’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, United 1 |
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| 191 | 191 | | States Code,’’; 2 |
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| 192 | 192 | | (2) in subsection (e)(1)— 3 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ‘‘or 4 |
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| 194 | 194 | | to whom transfer of a firearm would violate 5 |
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| 195 | 195 | | subsection (d)(11) of such section 922,’’ after 6 |
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| 196 | 196 | | ‘‘section 922 of title 18, United States Code or 7 |
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| 197 | 197 | | State law,’’; 8 |
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| 198 | 198 | | (B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘or 9 |
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| 199 | 199 | | that transfer of a firearm or ammunition to the 10 |
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| 200 | 200 | | person would violate subsection (d)(11) of such 11 |
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| 201 | 201 | | section 922,’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, 12 |
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| 202 | 202 | | United States Code,’’; 13 |
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| 203 | 203 | | (C) in subparagraph (F)(iii)(I), by striking 14 |
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| 204 | 204 | | ‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(11), (g), or 15 |
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| 205 | 205 | | (n)’’; and 16 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (D) in subparagraph (G)(i), by striking 17 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ‘‘(g) or (n)’’ and inserting ‘‘(d)(11), (g), or 18 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (n)’’; 19 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (3) in subsection (g), by inserting ‘‘or that 20 |
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| 210 | 210 | | transfer of a firearm to a prospective transferee 21 |
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| 211 | 211 | | would violate subsection (d)(11) of such section 22 |
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| 212 | 212 | | 922,’’ after ‘‘section 922 of title 18, United States 23 |
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| 213 | 213 | | Code or State law,’’; and 24 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (4) in subsection (i)(2)— 25 |
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| 218 | 218 | | (A) by striking ‘‘persons,’’ and inserting 1 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘persons who are’’; and 2 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (B) by inserting before the period at the 3 |
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| 221 | 221 | | end the following: ‘‘, or to whom transfer of a 4 |
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| 222 | 222 | | firearm would violate subsection (d)(11) of such 5 |
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| 223 | 223 | | section 922’’. 6 |
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| 224 | 224 | | SEC. 5. ADDING RIFLES TO MULTIPLE FIREARM SALES RE-7 |
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| 225 | 225 | | PORTING REQUIREMENTS. 8 |
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| 226 | 226 | | Section 923(g)(3)(A) of title 18, United States Code, 9 |
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| 227 | 227 | | is amended by striking ‘‘pistols, or revolvers, or any com-10 |
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| 228 | 228 | | bination of pistols and revolvers’’ and inserting ‘‘pistols, 11 |
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| 229 | 229 | | revolvers, or rifles, or any combination of pistols, revolvers, 12 |
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| 230 | 230 | | and rifles’’. 13 |
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