[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4190 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4190

    To enhance criminal penalties for straw purchasers of firearms.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2012

  Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To enhance criminal penalties for straw purchasers of firearms.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Straw Purchaser Penalty Enhancement 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SENTENCING ENHANCEMENT FOR CERTAIN STRAW PURCHASERS.

    Section 924 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(q)(1) Whoever violates section 922(a)(6) or subsection (a)(1)(A) 
of this section--
            ``(A) knowing or having reason to believe that the 
        violation will further the transfer of 2 or more firearms to a 
        person prohibited by law from shipping, transporting, 
        possessing or receiving a firearm; and
            ``(B) with the intent to conceal from the transferor of the 
        firearm the identity of the person referred to in subparagraph 
        (A),
shall, in addition to the punishment otherwise provided for the 
violation, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 2 years.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law:
            ``(A) The court shall not place on probation any person 
        convicted of a violation described in paragraph (1).
            ``(B) The court shall not reduce a term of imprisonment to 
        be imposed for such a violation so as to compensate for, or 
        otherwise take into account, a term of imprisonment imposed or 
        to be imposed for a separate such violation.
            ``(C)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), a term of 
        imprisonment imposed on a person under this subsection shall 
        not run concurrently with a term of imprisonment imposed on the 
        person under any other provision of law.
            ``(ii) A term of imprisonment imposed on a person for such 
        a violation may, in the discretion of the court, run 
        concurrently, in whole or in part, with another term of 
        imprisonment imposed on the person by the court at the same 
        time for a separate such violation, subject to applicable 
        guidelines and policy statements issued by the Sentencing 
        Commission pursuant to section 994 of title 28.
    ``(3) The Attorney General shall issue regulations requiring any 
form required to be completed by the purchaser of a firearm from a 
person licensed under section 923 to include a notice of the provisions 
of this subsection.''.
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