[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2460 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2460

 To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System 
                               database.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 27, 2006

 Mr. Menendez introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To permit access to certain information in the Firearms Trace System 
                               database.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FIREARMS TRACE SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--The Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109-108; 119 Stat. 2295) 
is amended in title I, under the heading ``Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives'', by striking ``Provided further, That no 
funds appropriated under this or any other Act with respect to any 
fiscal year may be used to disclose part or all of the contents of the 
Firearms Trace System database'' and all that follows through ``section 
921(a)(10) of such title):''.
    (b) Access to Information.--The Attorney General shall provide 
public access to the Crime Gun Trace Report (both nationally and for 
individual cities) from the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative, 
which is generated using information in the Firearms Trace System 
database maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives.
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