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00 2023-01-26 Introduced in Senate 2023-07-26T14:07:46Z <p><strong></strong><b>ATF Improvement and Modernization Act of 2023 or the AIM Act of 2023</b></p> <p>This bill removes limitations on the authority of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to conduct activities related to the administration of federal firearms laws.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill removes provisions that</p> <ul> <li>limit the use of firearms tracing data; </li> <li>prohibit consolidating or centralizing records maintained by federal firearm licensees, or FFLs (e.g., gun dealers); </li> <li>prohibit imposing a requirement that gun dealers conduct a physical inventory; </li> <li>require national instant criminal background check records to be destroyed within 24 hours; </li> <li>limit the disclosure of data under the Freedom of Information Act; </li> <li> prohibit the ATF from altering the definition of or denying certain import applications for a curio or relic firearm; </li> <li> prohibit the denial of a federal firearms license due to lack of business activity; </li> <li> prohibit transferring the ATF's functions, missions, or activities to other agencies or departments; </li> <li> prohibit the electronic retrieval of information gathered from firearm transaction records of FFLs that go out of business; and </li> <li> prohibit the ATF from denying an application to import certain shotguns. </li> </ul> <p>Additionally, the bill</p> <ul> <li>raises the liability standard for denying or revoking a federal firearms license from a willful violation to a knowing violation of federal firearms laws or regulations, and </li> <li>removes the de novo standard of judicial review for appealing the denial or revocation of a federal firearms license. <br> </li> </ul>

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