<enum>I</enum><header>Ensuring that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a gun are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header> <section id="H3D521074AB88482A8490DF1ABEE368C4"><enum>101.</enum><header>Penalties for States that do not make data electronically available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 102(b) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HEC772AD371084CADAF4F2CBD01D61CAC" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H2EC56AC06A1D48B58A12E994AA7A872C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation plan</header> <paragraph id="HD1E62FFFF1A14B6DA3551CD3A5879E40"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General, in coordination with the States, shall establish, for each State or Indian tribal government, a plan to ensure maximum coordination and automation of the reporting of records or making of records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, during a 4-year period specified in the plan.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC87C9342C5614528930C77D5E86755A1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Benchmark requirements</header><text>Each such plan shall include annual benchmarks, including qualitative goals and quantitative measures, to enable the Attorney General to assess implementation of the plan.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1B1347DC3D7647F3929F490264679F29"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Penalties for noncompliance</header> <subparagraph id="HDECD28E2138C4A0F8A224FF00E954308"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the 4-year period covered by such a plan, the Attorney General shall withhold the following percentage of the amount that would otherwise be allocated to a State under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3755">42 U.S.C. 3755</external-xref>) if the State does not meet the benchmark established under paragraph (2) for the following year in the period:</text> <clause id="H7A1AB07539F24009A37432F7FA0C18DB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>10 percent, in the case of the 1st year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="H0E73BD7496A54B9A9EB7116D5D0BD4BA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>11 percent, in the case of the 2nd year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="HC2FCCDC754B742DA9B61DCB28D4F49E3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>13 percent, in the case of the 3rd year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="H9B4E49F5E75B431BB305711BAE19A54B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>15 percent, in the case of the 4th year in the period.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBF9EEEE85CB94127BA941D17C6EAE526"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Failure to establish a plan</header><text>A State with respect to which a plan is not established under paragraph (1) shall be treated as having not met any benchmark established under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="H23EAB8C9CA0E41319D5E19DB6D3277E1"><enum>102.</enum><header>Requirement that Federal agencies certify that they have submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System all records identifying persons prohibited from purchasing firearms under Federal law</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H05C209CDB2BC46988A64A186945CB44C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H40F160501873464284BEA09BEA05EBAA"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Semiannual certification and reporting</header> <clause id="HC3EA598C04E64D0395D97383E4947A9C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The head of each Federal department or agency shall submit to the Attorney General a written certification indicating whether the department or agency has provided to the Attorney General the pertinent information contained in any record of any person that the department or agency was in possession of during the time period addressed by the certification demonstrating that the person falls within a category described in subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code.</text> </clause><clause id="H860439B38BE54001934D77CA7C4549A0"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Submission dates</header><text>The head of a Federal department or agency shall submit a certification under clause (i)—</text> <subclause id="HF768415E68AD4896822222E1368F9B6A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>not later than July 31 of each year, which shall address any record the department or agency was in possession of during the period beginning on January 1 of the year and ending on June 30 of the year; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H77F3FA71FA2C481C872B9923CB664058"><enum>(II)</enum><text>not later than January 31 of each year, which shall address any record the department or agency was in possession of during the period beginning on July 1 of the previous year and ending on December 31 of the previous year.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H5E38582BDBED4A13A8C01A51B126BCCD"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A certification required under clause (i) shall state, for the applicable period—</text> <subclause id="H518491977E5647BE937650D2F945B2D7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the number of records of the Federal department or agency demonstrating that a person fell within each of the categories described in section 922(g) of title 18, United States Code;</text> </subclause><subclause id="H5F271DBB025741809A502BCC751FF680"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the number of records of the Federal department or agency demonstrating that a person fell within the category described in section 922(n) of title 18, United States Code; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H3DD72E56D05D4FCAB9AA353440958082"><enum>(III)</enum><text>for each category of records described in subclauses (I) and (II), the total number of records of the Federal department or agency that have been provided to the Attorney General.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="HF5644E907294464F806AF76101CDDC16"><enum>103.</enum><header>Adjudicated as a mental defective</header> <subsection id="H00B118CEF7C248A3A0E57BEB22208337"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34A5254779D1499B9D40145DA0B57D82" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H54AAA91C01B741278DBB8F13032570ED" indent="up1"><enum>(36)</enum><text>The term <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HC8BBFDC6E6F5450EA67105641C7357D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>have the meaning given the term in section 478.11 of title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor thereto; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C282EFF147F42EA9AF43D4CD1F7BB95"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include an order by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a person, in response to mental illness, incompetency, or marked subnormal intelligence, be compelled to receive services—</text> <clause id="H18CF89D101294EA1A5D263C92137DB23"><enum>(i)</enum><text>including counseling, medication, or testing to determine compliance with prescribed medications; and</text> </clause><clause id="H82E3879004974891864458C94E86A947"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not including testing for use of alcohol or for abuse of any controlled substance or other drug.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFDCC120655E84834AB511E8CD3F671F7" indent="up1"><enum>(37)</enum><text>The term <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the meaning given the term in section 478.11 of title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor thereto.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H8C77959FFB0244C68E2C07CB842C2C9E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>An individual who has been adjudicated as a mental defective before the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act may not apply for relief from disability under section 101(c)(2) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) on the basis that the individual does not meet the requirements in section 921(a)(36) of title 18, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).</text> </subsection><subsection id="HA374B6094AA2491CBBA52F2922B7E1DF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007</header><text>Section 3 of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2957921FE1F346DE8EDAE46CB09BB9C8" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HFBD818B74ACB49AA9A1F53864E878404"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mental health terms</header> <subparagraph id="HCE7755C8DFA64D24AFFDF15AA73E1189"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the terms <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> and <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the meanings given the terms in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBC80EF0A31064CA9936F9632BAF9D30F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>For purposes of sections 102 and 103, the terms <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> and <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the same meanings as on the day before the date of enactment of the <short-title>Fix Gun Checks Act of 2016</short-title> until the end of the 2-year period beginning on such date of enactment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="H7C12E5ADB7AA46D1A74CB44B7CF267AD"><enum>104.</enum><header>Clarification that Federal court information is to be made available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note), as amended by section 102 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3CA5E0047D94D26931BD98D13909452" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF70B099FD0E94A80862D3C0B7443041B"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Application to Federal courts</header><text>In this paragraph—</text> <clause id="HBCF1D3153BDD41DE8B81DE8310A992BC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the terms <term>department or agency of the United States</term> and <term>Federal department or agency</term> include a Federal court; and</text> </clause><clause id="H2930653E0E384AF9B46D37BCA93E9AD9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for purposes of any request, submission, or notification, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall perform the functions of the head of the department or agency.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section>

114 S2934 IS: Fix Gun Checks Act of 2016 U.S. Senate 2016-05-16 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Fix Gun Checks Act of 2016

. (b)

Table of contents

The table of contents for this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Title I—Ensuring that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a gun are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Sec. 101. Penalties for States that do not make data electronically available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Sec. 102. Requirement that Federal agencies certify that they have submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System all records identifying persons prohibited from purchasing firearms under Federal law.

Sec. 103. Adjudicated as a mental defective.

Sec. 104. Clarification that Federal court information is to be made available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Title II—Requiring a background check for every firearm sale

Sec. 201. Purpose.

Sec. 202. Firearms transfers.

Sec. 203. Lost and stolen reporting.

<enum>I</enum><header>Ensuring that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a gun are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header> <section id="H3D521074AB88482A8490DF1ABEE368C4"><enum>101.</enum><header>Penalties for States that do not make data electronically available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 102(b) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block id="HEC772AD371084CADAF4F2CBD01D61CAC" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H2EC56AC06A1D48B58A12E994AA7A872C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Implementation plan</header> <paragraph id="HD1E62FFFF1A14B6DA3551CD3A5879E40"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General, in coordination with the States, shall establish, for each State or Indian tribal government, a plan to ensure maximum coordination and automation of the reporting of records or making of records available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System established under section 103 of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, during a 4-year period specified in the plan.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC87C9342C5614528930C77D5E86755A1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Benchmark requirements</header><text>Each such plan shall include annual benchmarks, including qualitative goals and quantitative measures, to enable the Attorney General to assess implementation of the plan.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1B1347DC3D7647F3929F490264679F29"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Penalties for noncompliance</header> <subparagraph id="HDECD28E2138C4A0F8A224FF00E954308"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">During the 4-year period covered by such a plan, the Attorney General shall withhold the following percentage of the amount that would otherwise be allocated to a State under section 505 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/3755">42 U.S.C. 3755</external-xref>) if the State does not meet the benchmark established under paragraph (2) for the following year in the period:</text> <clause id="H7A1AB07539F24009A37432F7FA0C18DB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>10 percent, in the case of the 1st year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="H0E73BD7496A54B9A9EB7116D5D0BD4BA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>11 percent, in the case of the 2nd year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="HC2FCCDC754B742DA9B61DCB28D4F49E3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>13 percent, in the case of the 3rd year in the period.</text> </clause><clause id="H9B4E49F5E75B431BB305711BAE19A54B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>15 percent, in the case of the 4th year in the period.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBF9EEEE85CB94127BA941D17C6EAE526"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Failure to establish a plan</header><text>A State with respect to which a plan is not established under paragraph (1) shall be treated as having not met any benchmark established under paragraph (2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="H23EAB8C9CA0E41319D5E19DB6D3277E1"><enum>102.</enum><header>Requirement that Federal agencies certify that they have submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System all records identifying persons prohibited from purchasing firearms under Federal law</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H05C209CDB2BC46988A64A186945CB44C" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H40F160501873464284BEA09BEA05EBAA"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Semiannual certification and reporting</header> <clause id="HC3EA598C04E64D0395D97383E4947A9C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The head of each Federal department or agency shall submit to the Attorney General a written certification indicating whether the department or agency has provided to the Attorney General the pertinent information contained in any record of any person that the department or agency was in possession of during the time period addressed by the certification demonstrating that the person falls within a category described in subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 of title 18, United States Code.</text> </clause><clause id="H860439B38BE54001934D77CA7C4549A0"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Submission dates</header><text>The head of a Federal department or agency shall submit a certification under clause (i)—</text> <subclause id="HF768415E68AD4896822222E1368F9B6A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>not later than July 31 of each year, which shall address any record the department or agency was in possession of during the period beginning on January 1 of the year and ending on June 30 of the year; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H77F3FA71FA2C481C872B9923CB664058"><enum>(II)</enum><text>not later than January 31 of each year, which shall address any record the department or agency was in possession of during the period beginning on July 1 of the previous year and ending on December 31 of the previous year.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H5E38582BDBED4A13A8C01A51B126BCCD"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Contents</header><text>A certification required under clause (i) shall state, for the applicable period—</text> <subclause id="H518491977E5647BE937650D2F945B2D7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the number of records of the Federal department or agency demonstrating that a person fell within each of the categories described in section 922(g) of title 18, United States Code;</text> </subclause><subclause id="H5F271DBB025741809A502BCC751FF680"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the number of records of the Federal department or agency demonstrating that a person fell within the category described in section 922(n) of title 18, United States Code; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H3DD72E56D05D4FCAB9AA353440958082"><enum>(III)</enum><text>for each category of records described in subclauses (I) and (II), the total number of records of the Federal department or agency that have been provided to the Attorney General.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><section id="HF5644E907294464F806AF76101CDDC16"><enum>103.</enum><header>Adjudicated as a mental defective</header> <subsection id="H00B118CEF7C248A3A0E57BEB22208337"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34A5254779D1499B9D40145DA0B57D82" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H54AAA91C01B741278DBB8F13032570ED" indent="up1"><enum>(36)</enum><text>The term <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> shall—</text> <subparagraph id="HC8BBFDC6E6F5450EA67105641C7357D4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>have the meaning given the term in section 478.11 of title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor thereto; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C282EFF147F42EA9AF43D4CD1F7BB95"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include an order by a court, board, commission, or other lawful authority that a person, in response to mental illness, incompetency, or marked subnormal intelligence, be compelled to receive services—</text> <clause id="H18CF89D101294EA1A5D263C92137DB23"><enum>(i)</enum><text>including counseling, medication, or testing to determine compliance with prescribed medications; and</text> </clause><clause id="H82E3879004974891864458C94E86A947"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not including testing for use of alcohol or for abuse of any controlled substance or other drug.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HFDCC120655E84834AB511E8CD3F671F7" indent="up1"><enum>(37)</enum><text>The term <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the meaning given the term in section 478.11 of title 27, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor thereto.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H8C77959FFB0244C68E2C07CB842C2C9E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>An individual who has been adjudicated as a mental defective before the date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act may not apply for relief from disability under section 101(c)(2) of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) on the basis that the individual does not meet the requirements in section 921(a)(36) of title 18, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).</text> </subsection><subsection id="HA374B6094AA2491CBBA52F2922B7E1DF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007</header><text>Section 3 of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2957921FE1F346DE8EDAE46CB09BB9C8" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HFBD818B74ACB49AA9A1F53864E878404"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mental health terms</header> <subparagraph id="HCE7755C8DFA64D24AFFDF15AA73E1189"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the terms <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> and <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the meanings given the terms in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBC80EF0A31064CA9936F9632BAF9D30F"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>For purposes of sections 102 and 103, the terms <term>adjudicated as a mental defective</term> and <term>committed to a mental institution</term> shall have the same meanings as on the day before the date of enactment of the <short-title>Fix Gun Checks Act of 2016</short-title> until the end of the 2-year period beginning on such date of enactment.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection></section><section id="H7C12E5ADB7AA46D1A74CB44B7CF267AD"><enum>104.</enum><header>Clarification that Federal court information is to be made available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 103(e)(1) of the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/922">18 U.S.C. 922</external-xref> note), as amended by section 102 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD3CA5E0047D94D26931BD98D13909452" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="HF70B099FD0E94A80862D3C0B7443041B"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Application to Federal courts</header><text>In this paragraph—</text> <clause id="HBCF1D3153BDD41DE8B81DE8310A992BC"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the terms <term>department or agency of the United States</term> and <term>Federal department or agency</term> include a Federal court; and</text> </clause><clause id="H2930653E0E384AF9B46D37BCA93E9AD9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>for purposes of any request, submission, or notification, the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall perform the functions of the head of the department or agency.</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </section><enum>II</enum><header>Requiring a background check for every firearm sale</header> <section id="H4F50C01D1EBD406FBF8782E7797DC6ED"><enum>201.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purpose of this title is to extend the Brady Law background check procedures to all sales and transfers of firearms.</text> </section><section id="HA6CDAF4E48544ECDAF41296A526E75CE"><enum>202.</enum><header>Firearms transfers</header> <subsection id="HE5C26F09BD6E45E59076AE1086152114"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H6C4BE9F02E13404083086B3FE0F5D566"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking subsection (s) and redesignating subsection (t) as subsection (s);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H576F829822C44F359A0143FB51E7D37E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (s), as so redesignated—</text> <subparagraph id="HFD4F79F43CB441FD9CA474E772A4E9E2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (3)(C)(ii), by striking <quote>(as defined in subsection (s)(8))</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H473C5AB9927A40EA967DAA7E44442707"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6B1B954D76A34DF49F65BF0F6C283E4A" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H9A936C4B5C6743EA8344E1B47D8A2A4B"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this subsection, the term ‘chief law enforcement officer’ means the chief of police, the sheriff, or an equivalent officer or the designee of any such individual.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4F1CE111DBF94708A507B4F190ACF61B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (s), as so redesignated, the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDCCAD6776D534E2488617717666C98EB" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H94C48FAE41A64DD5BAC1577F304B874F"><enum>(t)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H8F83F6962B4F43808B44B22267F9167F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It shall be unlawful for any person who is not a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer to transfer a firearm to any other person who is not so licensed, unless a licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer has first taken possession of the firearm for the purpose of complying with subsection (s). Upon taking possession of the firearm, the licensee shall comply with all requirements of this chapter as if the licensee were transferring the firearm from the inventory of the licensee to the unlicensed transferee.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBA8111672FC94A5F8B080EDC48C0C09F" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) shall not apply to—</text> <subparagraph id="H4250DD21CD6A4652AA9880D0E84B1966"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a transfer of a firearm by or to any law enforcement agency or any law enforcement officer, armed private security professional, or member of the armed forces, to the extent the officer, professional, or member is acting within the course and scope of employment and official duties;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB09FD101F5624E0D942CA4E8E30AB6E6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a transfer that is a loan or bona fide gift between spouses, between domestic partners, between parents and their children, between siblings, or between grandparents and their grandchildren;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H647E4D95D38A46C6AAFA9D26120E5EF4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a transfer to an executor, administrator, trustee, or personal representative of an estate or a trust that occurs by operation of law upon the death of another person;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE988BC4ABB9345C8B00E8F0FA16089F3"><enum>(D)</enum><text>a temporary transfer that is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, if the possession by the transferee lasts only as long as immediately necessary to prevent the imminent death or great bodily harm;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE58CD9BC5713406F931BAE64AAB6C064"><enum>(E)</enum><text>a transfer that is approved by the Attorney General under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/5812">section 5812</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEF6FBA5DCEE64DECB0C07B8F04DD3FA2"><enum>(F)</enum><text>a temporary transfer if the transferor has no reason to believe that the transferee will use or intends to use the firearm in a crime or is prohibited from possessing firearms under State or Federal law, and the transfer takes place and the transferee’s possession of the firearm is exclusively—</text> <clause id="HD0220CF3D7B544EFB5235FA76E92794F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>at a shooting range or in a shooting gallery or other area designated and built for the purpose of target shooting;</text> </clause><clause id="H6BA97455A3E448DC8A0E325D51CB05AB"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>while hunting, trapping, or fishing, if the hunting, trapping, or fishing is legal in all places where the transferee possesses the firearm and the transferee holds all licenses or permits required for such hunting, trapping, or fishing; or</text> </clause><clause id="H6C8BD9D72AD645AC9DCE5AFA76A9D51E"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>while in the presence of the transferor.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H234D3E5EA45941ADA7DBDE2A29107C09"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Technical and conforming amendments</header> <paragraph id="H6488046536DE46EEBD6BD7BD97A8BF48"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Section <enum-in-header>922</enum-in-header></header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 922(y)(2) of such title is amended in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>, (g)(5)(B), and (s)(3)(B)(v)(II)</quote> and inserting <quote>and (g)(5)(B)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1486F1F97F234F84ACBDEF2BBED361EE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Section <enum-in-header>925A</enum-in-header></header><text>Section 925A of such title is amended in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>subsection (s) or (t) of section 922</quote> and inserting <quote>section 922(s)</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF1599D515B83483A9F3B1642537C5BB0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a)(4) shall take effect 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HDDE6328399A3430B8FA338CA03C450CA"><enum>203.</enum><header>Lost and stolen reporting</header> <subsection id="H21DE915743664E269F33FD6D8A0B3CD9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1DE72A9A5084881AAA9E64AAD76570F" style="OLC"> <subsection id="HF471E5821C2A480DBFC2715D29EE7B50"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It shall be unlawful for any person who lawfully possesses or owns a firearm that has been shipped or transported in, or has been possessed in or affecting, interstate or foreign commerce, to fail to report the theft or loss of the firearm, within 48 hours after the person discovers the theft or loss, to the Attorney General and to the appropriate local authorities.</text></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H2D33D80687234163ACE8E071AD55DF65"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>Section 924(a)(1)(B) of such title is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HABBD9AE73AB24EF188B000421EF6E552" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H1926CB5CCD744D818FAB8A0DC20B6BD1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">knowingly violates subsection (a)(4), (f), (k), (q), or (aa) of section 922;</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section>