HR 563
No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act
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Bill overview
This bill aims to change how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) handles records from gun stores that close down. Currently, these stores must send their transaction records to the ATF. This bill would eliminate that requirement and instead, require the ATF to destroy all records it already has collected from closed gun stores.
Key provisions
- Requires the ATF to destroy firearm transaction records from closed gun stores.
- Sets a 90-day deadline for the ATF to destroy existing records.
- Removes the requirement for closed gun stores to deliver records to the Attorney General.
- Amends Section 923(g)(4) of Title 18, United States Code, to remove sentences related to record retention.
Who is affected
- Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs)
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
- The Attorney General
Notable changes
- Changes the ATF’s record retention policy for firearms businesses.
- Eliminates the obligation for closed FFLs to provide records to the ATF.
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 563
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to discontinue the collection by the Federal Government of firearm transaction records of discontinued firearms businesses, to require the destruction of such already collected records, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights Act
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Section 923(g)(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking the 2nd and 3rd sentences.
The Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shall submit to the Congress a written report that specifies the number of firearm transaction records destroyed pursuant to section 2(a).