[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1782 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1782

  To amend the National Firearms Act to require that local chief law 
 enforcement officers be notified of, and provided a 90-day period to 
                        deny, firearm transfers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2021

    Ms. Wexton (for herself, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. 
 Connolly, Ms. Norton, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Neguse, and Mrs. 
 Carolyn B. Maloney of New York) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the National Firearms Act to require that local chief law 
 enforcement officers be notified of, and provided a 90-day period to 
                        deny, firearm transfers.

    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 ``Empowering Law Enforcement for Safer 
Firearm Transfers Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF LOCAL CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IN CASE OF 
              FIREARM TRANSFER.

    (a) In General.--Section 5812 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
is amended by striking ``and (6)'' and inserting ``(6) the Secretary 
has notified the chief law enforcement officer of the jurisdiction in 
which the transferee primarily resides that such application is 
pending, and such officer either (A) certifies that there is no 
objection to the transfer, or (B) does not, before the end of the 90-
day period beginning on the date of such notification, certify to the 
Secretary that (i) the transferee poses a danger to the transferee or 
others, or (ii) there is a reasonable likelihood the transferee will 
use the firearm for unlawful purposes; and (7)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
with respect to applications filed after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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