[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2594 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2594

   To provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace 
                   information in civil proceedings.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 25, 2016

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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the discoverability and admissibility of gun trace 
                   information in civil proceedings.

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

SECTION 1. DISCOVERABILITY AND ADMISSIBILITY OF GUN TRACE INFORMATION 
              IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS.

    The contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by 
the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, 
and Explosives shall not be immune from legal process, shall be subject 
to subpoena or other discovery, shall be admissible as evidence, and 
may be used, relied on, or disclosed in any manner, and testimony or 
other evidence may be permitted based on the data, on the same basis as 
other information, in a civil action in any State (including the 
District of Columbia) or Federal court or in an administrative 
proceeding.
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