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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1076 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To address the importation and proliferation of machinegun conversion |
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| 6 | 6 | | devices. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH14, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. K |
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| 10 | 10 | | LOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Ms. |
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| 11 | 11 | | D |
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| 12 | 12 | | UCKWORTH, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. PADILLA, |
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| 13 | 13 | | Mrs. S |
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| 14 | 14 | | HAHEEN, Ms. SMITH, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. WYDEN, and Mr. |
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| 15 | 15 | | M |
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| 16 | 16 | | ARKEY) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 17 | 17 | | to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To address the importation and proliferation of machinegun |
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| 20 | 20 | | conversion devices. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Illegal 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Weapons Trafficking Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | In this Act— 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) the term ‘‘machinegun’’ has the meaning 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | given the term in section 5845 of the Internal Rev-2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | enue Code of 1986; and 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) the term ‘‘machinegun conversion device’’ 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | means any part designed and intended solely and ex-5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | clusively, or combination of parts designed and in-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | tended, for use in converting a weapon into a ma-7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | chinegun. 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | SEC. 3. PREVENTION AND INTERCEPTION STRATEGY. 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (a) S |
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| 41 | 41 | | TRATEGY.— 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) I |
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| 43 | 43 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | the Secretary of the Treasury shall develop and im-14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | plement a strategy to prevent or intercept the impor-15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | tation or trafficking of machinegun conversion de-16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | vices. 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (2) C |
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| 51 | 51 | | ONTENTS.—The strategy described in 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | paragraph (1) shall include plans to optimize— 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (A) the capacity of Federal law enforce-20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ment agencies to detect, intercept, and seize 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | machinegun conversion devices; 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (B) the coordination between State and 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | local law enforcement agencies and Federal law 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | enforcement agencies, including the Bureau of 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Se-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | curity Investigations, and U.S. Customs and 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Border Protection, when machinegun conversion 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | devices are seized at ports of entry; 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (C) efforts by the Bureau of Alcohol, To-6 |
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| 68 | 68 | | bacco, Firearms, and Explosives to collaborate 7 |
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| 69 | 69 | | with State and local law enforcement agencies 8 |
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| 70 | 70 | | to identify and trace machinegun conversion de-9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | vices used in crimes, including identifying the 10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | source of the device, whether from a foreign 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | country or the United States; 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | (D) training programs provided by Federal 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | law enforcement agencies to aid State and local 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | law enforcement agencies in identifying ma-15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | chinegun conversion devices; 16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | (E) the investigation and collection of data 17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | regarding the origins of machinegun conversion 18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | devices that are seized at ports of entry or re-19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | covered by law enforcement agencies in the 20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | United States in order to identify patterns and 21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | detect vulnerabilities; and 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (F) the capacity of Federal law enforce-23 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ment agencies, including the Bureau of Alcohol, 24 |
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| 86 | 86 | | Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Federal 25 |
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| 90 | 90 | | Bureau of Investigation, and Homeland Secu-1 |
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| 91 | 91 | | rity Investigations, to detect, intercept, and 2 |
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| 92 | 92 | | seize domestically produced machinegun conver-3 |
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| 93 | 93 | | sion devices, including machinegun conversion 4 |
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| 94 | 94 | | devices produced using 3D printing technology. 5 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (b) R |
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| 96 | 96 | | EPORTS.— 6 |
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| 97 | 97 | | (1) I |
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| 98 | 98 | | NITIAL REPORT.—Not later than 120 days 7 |
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| 99 | 99 | | after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney 8 |
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| 100 | 100 | | General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and 9 |
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| 101 | 101 | | the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report 10 |
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| 102 | 102 | | on the strategy developed and implemented under 11 |
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| 103 | 103 | | subsection (a), which shall include relevant statis-12 |
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| 104 | 104 | | tical information, to— 13 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (A) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 14 |
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| 106 | 106 | | Senate; 15 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (B) the Committee on Homeland Security 16 |
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| 108 | 108 | | and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 17 |
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| 109 | 109 | | (C) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 18 |
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| 110 | 110 | | House of Representatives; and 19 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (D) the Committee on Homeland Security 20 |
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| 112 | 112 | | of the House of Representatives. 21 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (2) P |
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| 114 | 114 | | ERIODIC UPDATES.—Not less frequently 22 |
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| 115 | 115 | | than once every 2 years, the Attorney General, the 23 |
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| 116 | 116 | | Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Secretary 24 |
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| 117 | 117 | | of the Treasury shall submit to the congressional 25 |
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| 121 | 121 | | committees described in paragraph (1) an update to 1 |
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| 122 | 122 | | the report submitted under that paragraph that de-2 |
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| 123 | 123 | | scribes progress made on the implementation of the 3 |
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| 124 | 124 | | strategy developed under subsection (a). 4 |
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| 125 | 125 | | SEC. 4. FORFEITURE OF PROCEEDS FROM MACHINEGUN 5 |
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| 126 | 126 | | VIOLATIONS. 6 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Section 5872 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 7 |
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| 128 | 128 | | is amended— 8 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘, and any 9 |
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| 130 | 130 | | proceeds derived from the illegal trafficking of a ma-10 |
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| 131 | 131 | | chinegun,’’ after ‘‘provisions of this chapter’’; and 11 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 12 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(c) I |
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| 134 | 134 | | LLEGALTRAFFICKING OF A MACHINEGUN.— 13 |
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| 135 | 135 | | For purposes of subsection (a), the term ‘illegal trafficking 14 |
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| 136 | 136 | | of a machinegun’ means the making, manufacture, impor-15 |
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| 137 | 137 | | tation, exportation, or transfer of a machinegun in viola-16 |
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| 138 | 138 | | tion of the provisions of this chapter or any regulations 17 |
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| 139 | 139 | | prescribed under this chapter.’’. 18 |
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| 140 | 140 | | SEC. 5. GUN TRAFFICKING REPORT. 19 |
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| 141 | 141 | | The Attorney General shall include information about 20 |
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| 142 | 142 | | machinegun conversion devices in the annual firearms 21 |
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| 143 | 143 | | trafficking report announced by the President on April 7, 22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | 2021, including— 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | (1) the number of crimes in which machinegun 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | conversion devices are used; and 25 |
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| 150 | 150 | | (2) whether the machinegun conversion devices 1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | recovered from crimes described in paragraph (1) 2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | are manufactured in the United States or a foreign 3 |
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| 153 | 153 | | country. 4 |
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