[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 843 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 843

  To limit the amount of ammunition purchased or possessed by certain 
                 Federal agencies for a 6-month period.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 25, 2013

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To limit the amount of ammunition purchased or possessed by certain 
                 Federal agencies for a 6-month period.

    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 ``Ammunition Management for More 
Obtainability Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PURCHASING AMMUNITION.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``agency'' has the meaning given that term in 
        section 551 of title 5, United States Code;
            (2) the term ``ammunition'' has the meaning given that term 
        in section 921 of title 18, United States Code; and
            (3) the term ``covered agency''--
                    (A) means an agency; and
                    (B) does not include the Department of Defense.
    (b) Prohibition.--During the 6-month period beginning on the date 
of enactment of this Act, a covered agency may not purchase during any 
month or possess, at any one time, more rounds of ammunition than the 
monthly average of the number of rounds of ammunition purchased by the 
covered agency during the period beginning on January 1, 2001 and 
ending on December 31, 2009.
    (c) GAO Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States 
shall submit to Congress a report regarding the purchasing of 
ammunition by agencies, which shall include an assessment of the effect 
of the purchasing of ammunition by agencies on the supply of ammunition 
available to the public.
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