[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3853 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3853

  To provide the Attorney General with greater discretion in issuing 
    Federal firearms licenses, and to authorize temporarily greater 
 scrutiny of Federal firearms licensees who have transferred a firearm 
  unlawfully or had 10 or more crime guns traced back to them in the 
                           preceding 2 years.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2015

  Ms. Moore introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide the Attorney General with greater discretion in issuing 
    Federal firearms licenses, and to authorize temporarily greater 
 scrutiny of Federal firearms licensees who have transferred a firearm 
  unlawfully or had 10 or more crime guns traced back to them in the 
                           preceding 2 years.

    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 ``Gun Dealer Accountability Act''.

SEC. 2. GREATER DISCRETION IN ISSUING FEDERAL FIREARMS LICENSES.

    Section 923 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``shall issue'' and 
        inserting ``may issue''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``shall be'' and 
        inserting ``may be''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF TEMPORARILY GREATER SCRUTINY OF FEDERAL 
              FIREARMS LICENSEES WHO HAVE TRANSFERRED A FIREARM 
              UNLAWFULLY OR HAD 10 OR MORE CRIME GUNS TRACED BACK TO 
              THEM IN THE PRECEDING 2 YEARS.

    (a) Authority to Temporarily Increase Frequency of Inspections.--
Section 923(g)(1)(B)(ii)(I) of title 18, United States Code, is amended 
by inserting ``, except that this subclause shall not apply with 
respect to a licensee if, in the preceding 2 years, a court has found 
the licensee to have transferred a firearm unlawfully or the Attorney 
General has found that 10 or more firearms used in crimes have been 
traced back to the licensee'' before the semicolon.
    (b) Authority to Temporarily Require Conduct of a Physical 
Inventory of Firearms Business.--
            (1) The matter under the heading ``Bureau of Alcohol, 
        Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--Salaries and Expenses'' in 
        title II of division B of the Consolidated and Further 
        Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public 
        Law 113-6; 127 Stat. 248) is amended in the 5th proviso by 
        inserting ``, unless the rule applies only to a business of a 
        licensee if, in the preceding 2 years, a court has found the 
        licensee to have transferred a firearm unlawfully or the 
        Attorney General has found that 10 or more firearms used in 
        crimes have been traced back to the licensee'' before the 
        colon.
            (2) The matter under the heading ``Bureau of Alcohol, 
        Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--Salaries and Expenses'' in 
        title I of division B of the Consolidated and Further 
        Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012 (18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public 
        Law 112-55; 125 Stat. 609-610) is amended in the 7th proviso by 
        inserting ``, unless the rule applies only to a business of a 
        licensee if, in the preceding 2 years, a court has found the 
        licensee to have transferred a firearm unlawfully or the 
        Attorney General has found that 10 or more firearms used in 
        crimes have been traced back to the licensee'' before the 
        colon.
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