[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2330 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2330

  To allow the Attorney General additional time to process background 
      checks for alien firearm purchases, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 19, 2015

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To allow the Attorney General additional time to process background 
      checks for alien firearm purchases, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Strict Alien Firearm Enforcement 
Check Act'' or the ``SAFE Check Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL TIME FOR PROCESSING CERTAIN BACKGROUND CHECKS.

    Section 922(t) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking subparagraph (B) and 
        inserting the following:
            ``(B)(i) in the case of a transferee not described in 
        clause (ii)--
                    ``(I) the system provides the licensee with a 
                unique identification number; or
                    ``(II) 3 business days (meaning a day on which 
                State offices are open) have elapsed since the licensee 
                contacted the system, and the system has not notified 
                the licensee that the receipt of a firearm by such 
                other person would violate subsection (g) or (n) of 
                this section; and
            ``(ii) in the case of a transferee who is an alien who 
        entered the United States pursuant to the program established 
        under section 217(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
        U.S.C. 1187(a)), the system provides the licensee with a unique 
        identification number after conducting a background 
        investigation described in paragraph (7); and''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(7) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B)(ii), a background 
investigation described in this paragraph is an investigation that 
includes a check of records maintained by the International Criminal 
Police Organization (INTERPOL) and the country that issued the alien's 
passport in order to determine whether the receipt of a firearm by the 
alien would violate subsection (g) or (n), and a foreign conviction 
shall be considered a conviction under subsection (g)(1).''.
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